Zebrafish genome assemblies

The DNA of ~1000 zebrafish embryos was used for whole genome shotgun sequencing. The resulting reads are assembled with Phusion and used to fill gaps between clone contigs resulting in an integrated whole genome assembly. From Zv5 onwards, assemblies include reads from a new library generated from a single Tuebingen, double haploid zebrafish.

All whole genome shotgun reads are regularly deposited in our trace repository and can be searched with SSAHA, a very fast tool for nearly identical sequence matches.

		Ensembl Ensembl currently features the Zv8 assembly complete with gene build and comparative genomics data. DAS sources can be added to the browser to view additional data aligned to the genome assembly Zv8 based zebrafish Ensembl search the assembly with Blast/SSAHA DAS sources community annotation ftp download information Previous assemblies seventh assembly Zv7 ftp download information sixth assembly Zv6 ftp download information fifth assembly Zv5 Ensembl archive ftp download information fourth assembly Zv4 Ensembl archive ftp download information third assembly Zv3 ftp download information second assembly Zv2 ftp download information first assembly Zv1 ftp download information traces trace repository search the traces with SSAHA other DAS Server frequently asked questions