Ailuropoda melanoleuca Photo courtesy of Jeff Kubina (Wikimedia Commons)

The Dec. 2009 Ailuropoda melanoleuca draft assembly (BGI-Shenzhen AilMel 1.0 Dec. 2009) was produced by the Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (BGI-Shenzhen) sequencing center.

### 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 Panda genome. See the User's Guide for more information.

Request: |  | Genome Browser Response:
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GL192360 |  | Displays all of scaffold GL192360
GL192370.1:1-1,000,000 |  | Displays first million bases of scaffold GL192370
GL192379.1:1,000,000+2000 |  | Displays a region of scaffold GL192379.1 that spans 2000 bases, starting with position 1000000
DQ852340 |  | Displays region of mRNA with GenBank accession number DQ852340
AF325709 |  | Displays region of EST with GenBank accession AF325709
homeobox caudal |  | Lists mRNAs for caudal homeobox genes
zinc finger |  | Lists many zinc finger mRNAs
kruppel zinc finger |  | Lists only kruppel-like zinc fingers
liao |  | Lists mRNAs deposited by scientist named Liao
Huang,D. |  | Lists mRNAs deposited by co-author D. Huang
Use this last format for author queries. Although GenBank requires the search format Huang D, internally it uses the format Huang,D..

### Assembly details

The genome has been sequenced to 94% coverage. See also: The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome. Nature. 2010 January 21;463:311-317.

There are 200,592 WGS fragments for a total of 2,245,296,026 bases, with 119,126 fragment gaps in a combined total of 54,196,184 bases of Ns. All these gaps are bridged gaps. The mitochondrial sequence, accession NC_009492 is included as chrM.

Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser FTP server or the Downloads page. The Panda 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.