Gorilla gorilla gorilla Public Domain Photograph

The May 2011 Gorilla gorilla gorilla draft assembly is produced by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (NCBI project 31265, GCA_000151905.1).

### Sample position queries

A genome position can be specified by the accession number of a sequenced genomic region, an mRNA or EST, a chromosomal coordinate range, or keywords from the GenBank description of an mRNA. The following list shows examples of valid position queries for the Gorilla genome. See the User's Guide for more information.

Request: |  | Genome Browser Response:
--- | --- | ---
chrM |  | Displays all of chromosome M
chr3:1-1000000 |  | Displays first million bases of chr 3
chr3:1000000+2000 |  | Displays a region of chr 3 that spans 2000 bases, starting with position 1000000
NM_201653 |  | This search finds the non-Gorilla RefSeq accessioned item with name: NM_201653
NM_201653; NM_029604 |  | Display the region between these two non-Gorilla RefSeq accessioned items
BX950328 |  | Displays region of mRNA with GenBank accession number BX950328
pseudogene mRNA |  | Lists transcribed pseudogenes, but not cDNAs
homeobox caudal |  | Lists mRNAs for caudal homeobox genes
zinc finger |  | Lists many zinc finger mRNAs
kruppel zinc finger |  | Lists only kruppel-like zinc fingers
zahler |  | Lists mRNAs deposited by scientist named Zahler
Taguchi,T. |  | Lists mRNAs deposited by co-author T. Taguchi
Use this last format for author queries. Although GenBank requires the search format Taguchi T, internally it uses the format Taguchi,T..

### Assembly details

See also: WGS CABD02
Assembly involved several phases, starting with a de novo assembly of the initial data using the ABySS and Phusion assemblers. Contigs from this 'seed' assembly were then grown by assembling and attaching Solexa read pairs from the initial data. To improve long-range structure, supercontig construction was guided by placing (where possible) seed contigs in accordance with their homologous locations on the human genome, breaking supercontigs wherever a potential break between human and gorilla was inferred in an alignment of all the Solexa data to human.

This draft assembly contains all the assembled supercontigs plus a mitochondrial sequence (chrM - NC_011120).

Two types of sequencing were used in this assembly:

- 2.1x WGS capillary sequenced read pairs.
- 35x Solexa sequenced read pairs with insert sizes 150 bp and 450 bp.

All sequence was derived from DNA sampled from a single female Western Lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), Kamilah.

Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser FTP server or the Downloads page. These data have specific conditions for use. The Gorilla browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the Credits page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.