45833932032eb78f03e30b448038e4fd78641736 greg Fri Apr 15 16:09:05 2011 -0700 Fixed error where I accidentally added a new paragraph. diff --git src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html index 5b403b6..408652e 100644 --- src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html @@ -21,40 +21,38 @@ To receive announcements of new genome assembly releases, new software features, updates and training seminars by email, subscribe to the genome-announce mailing list.

18 March 2011 - Sheep Browser Released

We are happy to announce the release of a Genome Browser for - the initial release of sheep (Ovis aries) genome. The Feb. 2010 Ovis + the initial release of sheep (Ovis aries) genome.

The Feb. 2010 Ovis aries draft assembly(NCBI project 10709, GCA_000005525.1) was produced by the International Sheep Genomics Consortium (ISGC) - sequencing center.

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The mitochondrial genome sequenced by . The mitochondrial genome was sequenced by Justus-Liebig-University.

There are 27 chromosomes, chr1 - chr26, chrX plus the mitochondrial sequence chrM from genbank accession NC_001941 for a total sequence length of 2,860,512,983 bases. There are 1,659,241,706 'N' bases in gaps, leaving 1,201,271,277 ACGT bases.

The genome has been sequenced using 454 FLX sequencing to 3X coverage (DNA derived from six female sheep each sequenced with 0.5X coverage). Contigs were assembled based on alignment to the bovine genome and ordered into ovine chromosomes using BAC-end sequences and the virtual sheep genome. See also: International Sheep Genomics Consortium Genome Sequencing Project description.

We'd like to thank