Goat Genome Assembly Annotation

Goat is an important farm animal with its meat and milk providing an important source of protein for people all around the world. A new PacBio only assembly ASM17044v1 (GCA_001704415.1) has been released in August 2016. It will be available in 2017 in the Ensembl browser with data and tools to facilitate research on goat.

This is an introduction to the Ensembl Annotation System and how it will produce the annotation of the goat genome. We will use publicly available data sets from databases such as ENA, NCBI and UniProt. Proteic and nucleic sequence will be aligned to the genome then filtered and ordered in order to create the gene set.

Other resources like comparative genomic will be updated to provide extensive genomic and transcriptomic information.

The data will be accessible through our website, www.ensembl.org, our REST API, http://rest.ensembl.org, BioMart (http://www.ensembl.org/biomart) and our MySQL server, ensembldb.ensembl.org.