This site provides a data set based on the March
2006 Pan_troglodytes-2.1 6x shotgun assembly from the Chimpanzee Sequencing
Consortium headed by the GSC (St. Louis)
and The Broad Institute (MIT).
The chimpanzee 2.1 assembly is a merge of the initial 4X made in collaboration with the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard and an additional (2X) whole genome coverage from the WUGSC (St. Louis) utilizing a combination of whole genome plasmid reads as well as fosmid and BAC end sequences.
This release of the assembly has the following properties: