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Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

No other nonhuman primate is more northern-living, nor lives in a colder climate, than the Japanese macaque! Read more about Japanese macaques on Wikipedia.

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Chromosome-length genome assembly

Download the Macaca_fuscata_HiC.fasta.gz file containing the chromosome-length (2n=42) assembly of the Japanese macaque genome. All modifications with respect to the draft (see below) are annotated in the Macaca_fuscata_HiC.assembly file. Some basic stats associated with the new reference, Macaca_fuscata_HiC, are listed below. The full data release can be explored here.

Contig length (bp)
Number of contigs
Contig N50 (bp)
Longest contig (bp)
2,789,586,784
78,636
90,024
809,269
Scaffold length (bp)
Number of scaffolds
Scaffold N50 (bp)
Longest scaffold (bp)
2,843,076,980
16,003
149,352,196
221,562,932
Draft

The chromosome-length genome assembly is based on the draft assembly Macaca_fuscata, credited below.

This genome assembly was done in collaboration with Michal Levy-Sakin (formerly UCSF and currently at Dovetail), Pui Kwok (UCSF), Betsy Ferguson (ONPRC) and Jeff Wall (UCSF). The draft genome assembly was based on 10X and BioNano data.

Method

3D Assembly was performed using 3D-DNA pipeline (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The genome was reviewed using Juicebox Assembly Tools  (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018). See Methods for more information.

Hi-C sample

The blood sample for in situ Hi-C preparation was obtained from Oregon National Primate Research Center.

Hi-C Contact maps

Hi-C data was aligned to the draft reference using Juicer (Durand, Shamim et al., Cell Systems, 2016), and contact maps visualizing the alignments with respect to the draft and the new reference were built using 3D-DNA (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The contact maps can be explored below via Juicebox.js interactive tool (Robinson et al., Cell Systems, 2018). (Please note that the interactive figures are scaled 1:2.) To explore the assembly in greater detail, please download the .hic and .assembly files from the data release folder and use Juicebox Assembly Tools  (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018).

References

If you use this genome assembly in your research, please check that the conditions of use associated with the draft permit it, and acknowledge the following work.

This genome assembly was done in collaboration with Michal Levy-Sakin (formerly UCSF and currently at Dovetail), Pui Kwok (UCSF), Betsy Ferguson (ONPRC) and Jeff Wall (UCSF). The draft genome assembly was based on 10X and BioNano data.

Dudchenko, O., Batra, S.S., Omer, A.D., Nyquist, S.K., Hoeger, M., Durand, N.C., Shamim, M.S., Machol, I., Lander, E.S., Aiden, A.P., Aiden, E.L., 2017. De novo assembly of the Aedes aegypti genome using Hi-C yields chromosome-length scaffolds. Science 356, 92–95. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal3327.

Dudchenko, O., Shamim, M.S., Batra, S., Durand, N.C., Musial, N.T., Mostofa, R., Pham, M., Hilaire, B.G.S., Yao, W., Stamenova, E., Hoeger, M., Nyquist, S.K., Korchina, V., Pletch, K., Flanagan, J.P., Tomaszewicz, A., McAloose, D., Estrada, C.P., Novak, B.J., Omer, A.D., Aiden, E.L., 2018. The Juicebox Assembly Tools module facilitates de novo assembly of mammalian genomes with chromosome-length scaffolds for under $1000. bioRxiv 254797. https://doi.org/10.1101/254797.

Disclaimer

This is a work in progress. If you notice any discrepancies in the map or have data that confirms or contradicts the suggested reference, please email us at thednazoo@gmail.com or leave a comment on the Forum.

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