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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biotechnol. 2014 Nov 17;32(12):1250–1255. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3079

Table 1.

Summary details of the ferret genome assembly and associated Ensembl annotation.

Mustela putorius furo genome
 Assembly MusPutFur1.0
 Date June 2011
 Total Assembly Length 2,41 Gb
 Total Sequence 2.28 Gb
 Short Read Coverage 162 X
 Organization 7,783 unplaced scaffolds
 Scaffold N50 9.3 Mb
Ensembl annotation
 Database version 70.1
 Date Aug 2012
 Coding genes 19,910
 Noncoding genes 3,614
 Pseudogenes 287
 Gene transcripts 23,963

Supporting evidence: 1.1×109 mRNA-seq reads (Paired end 2 × 100; 220 GBases) from 21 individual tissues including developmental stages, and respiratory tissues from 2009 SOIV infected ferrets.