Assembly and annotation for great gerbil

Approximantely 86x coverage of Illumina paired end reads were assembled with ALLPATHS-LG resulting in a highly contiguous scaffold assembly.

An iterative automatic annotation with MAKER2 using a mouse cDNA set (Ensembl) and proteins from Uniprot/SwissProt resulted in 70,974 predicted gene models. InterProScan was run on the predicted predicted proteins and gene names were allocated based on match with proteins in UniProt/SwissProt. We filtered this set based on Annotation Edit Distance (AED) using the deafult filtering parameter, creating a file set containing all genes with AED less than 1 (AED<1). This resulted in 22,393 gene models.