Assembly

chimpanzee 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: