Black snub-nosed monkey assembly and gene annotation

The black snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti), also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, is an endangered species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to China, where it is able to live at high altitudes owing to a mutation that allows increased resistance to oxygen deprivation.

Assembly

The ASM169854v1 assembly was submitted by the Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource at Yunnan University on 2016/08/03. The assembly is on the Scaffold level, consisting of 226,509 assembled into 105,032 scaffolds. The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer. The N50 length for the contigs is 36,417 while the scaffold N50 is 2,225,337.

Gene annotation

The gene annotation process was carried out using a combination of protein-to-genome alignments, annotation mapping from a suitable reference species and RNA-seq alignments (where RNA-seq data with appropriate meta data were publicly available). For each candidate gene region, a selection process was applied to choose the most appropriate set of transcripts based on evolutionary distance, experimental evidence for the source data and quality of the alignments. Small ncRNAs were obtained using a combination of BLAST and Infernal/RNAfold. Pseudogenes were calculated by looking at genes with a large percentage of non-biological introns (introns of <10bp), where the gene was covered in repeats, or where the gene was single exon and evidence of a functional multi-exon paralog was found elsewhere in the genome.

• Detailed information on primate clade genebuild (PDF)

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More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.