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Genes
The Gene track represents the sequence of the basic unit of inheritance.

Gene Models
The best available gene model is shown in the 'Gene Models' track. Manually reviewed gene models are shown in dark blue and dark red, while models not yet reviewed are shown in pale blue and red for Watson and Crick genes, respectively.

Curated Models
The Curated Models track is a track which dictyBase curators create create from experimentally derived data typically deposited in GenBank.
Genes are assigned coordinates based on all available information.

Gene Predictions from Sequencing Centers
Gene predictions for chromosome 2 provided by personal communication with the International consortium of the Dictyostelium Genome Project as described in
"The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum". Eichinger L, Pachebat JA, Glockner G, Rajandream MA, Sucgang R, Berriman M, Song J, Olsen R, Szafranski K, Xu Q, Tunggal B, Kummerfeld S, Madera M, Konfortov BA, Rivero F, Bankier AT, Lehmann R, Hamlin N, Davies R, Gaudet P, Fey P, Pilcher K, Chen G, Saunders D, Sodergren E, Davis P, Kerhornou A, Nie X, Hall N, Anjard C, Hemphill L, Bason N, Farbrother P, Desany B, Just E, Morio T, Rost R, Churcher C, Cooper J, Haydock S, van Driessche N, Cronin A, Goodhead I, Muzny D, Mourier T, Pain A, Lu M, Harper D, Lindsay R, Hauser H, James K, Quiles M, Madan Babu M, Saito T, Buchrieser C, Wardroper A, Felder M, Thangavelu M, Johnson D, Knights A, Loulseged H, Mungall K, Oliver K, Price C, Quail MA, Urushihara H, Hernandez J, Rabbinowitsch E, Steffen D, Sanders M, Ma J, Kohara Y, Sharp S, Simmonds M, Spiegler S, Tivey A, Sugano S, White B, Walker D, Woodward J, Winckler T, Tanaka Y, Shaulsky G, Schleicher M, Weinstock G, Rosenthal A, Cox EC, Chisholm RL, Gibbs R, Loomis WF, Platzer M, Kay RR, Williams J, Dear PH, Noegel AA, Barrell B, Kuspa A. (2005) Nature 435(7038): 43-57. Gene predictions for chromosome 6 provided by personal communication with the International consortium of the Dictyostelium Genome Project at Baylor College of Medicine (http://dictygenome.bcm.tmc.edu/)

Geneid Repredictions
Gene repredictions performed by Daniel Schneider with assistance from Eric Just using the geneid software using a customized training set based on Dictyostelium curated models (Dec 2007).

tRNAs
The tRNAs were predicted at dictyBase using the tRNAscan-SE tool as described in

tRNAscan-SE: a program for improved detection of transfer RNA genes in genomic sequence. Lowe and Eddy. Nucleic Acids Res., 25(5):955-64, 1997

ncRNAs
This track represents non-coding, functional RNAs

GenBank mRNA (cDNA) Alignments
This track shows regions where GenBank mRNA's align to genomic sequence. The mRNAs were blasted against the genomic sequence. The hits were filtered using an algorithm described in:

"Alignment of BLAST High-scoring Segment Pairs Based on the Longest Increasing Subsequence Algorithm" Zhang H, Bioinformatics, 19:1391-1396, 2003.

Only the longest total hit region which covers >=85% of the query seqeunce is shown.

CDS from GenBank Genomic Fragments Alignments
This track shows regions where CDSs from GenBank DNA records align to genomic sequence. The CDSs were blasted against the genomic sequence. The hits were filtered using an algorithm described in:

"Alignment of BLAST High-scoring Segment Pairs Based on the Longest Increasing Subsequence Algorithm" Zhang H, Bioinformatics, 19:1391-1396, 2003.

Only the longest total hit region which covers >=85% of the query seqeunce is shown.

EST Alignments
This track shows regions where ESTs align to genomic sequence. The ESTs are published by the Japanese cDNA project and obtained from GenBank. They were blasted against the genomic sequence. The hits were filtered using an algorithm described in:

"Alignment of BLAST High-scoring Segment Pairs Based on the Longest Increasing Subsequence Algorithm" Zhang H, Bioinformatics, 19:1391-1396, 2003.

Only the longest total hit region which covers >=75% of the query seqeunce is shown.

Contigs
A contig is a stretch of genomic DNA assembled from raw sequence data, as described in:

The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Eichinger et al.Nature, 435:43-57, 2005

Putative TF binding sites
This track represents putative transcription factor binding sites predicted as described in

dictyBase - a Dictyostelium bioinformatics resource update. Fey, Gaudet, Curk, Zupan, Just, Basu, Merchant, Bushmanova, Shaulsky, Kibbe & Chisholm. Nucleic Acids Res, database issue, 2009

3-frame translation (forward)
At low zoom level, this track shows the amino acids encoded by the genomic sequence in each of the three open reading frames. At high zoom level, stop codons are represented by a solid red line, such that open reading frames can easily be detected.

DNA/GC Content
At low zoom level, the DNA sequence is shown. At high zoom level, the GC content is represented as a graph.

3-frame translation (reverse)
At low zoom level, this track shows the amino acids encoded by the genomic sequence in each of the three open reading frames. At high zoom level, stop codons are represented by a solid red line, such that open reading frames can easily be detected.

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