Archive Ensembl Home Ensembl Chicken  The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute  The European Bioinformatics Institute
Chicken Genome Browser
   Ensembl Entry Points
Search for with  
Display Chr From  To 
Retrieve a sequence  Ensembl Export Data in the format of your choice Advanced data retrieval tool  Ensembl data mining tool
About Chicken Ensembl
Cluck, cluck, and so on. This site presents an annotation of the first draft chicken genome assembly [more]. The chicken genome sequence was determined by whole genome shotgun at the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University, St Louis. The analysis of the chicken sequence involves an international group of scientists including individuals from the US, UK, Europe and China.

WARNING
This release of G. gallus CGAW contains some sequence that is not specific to chromosome W. A large portion of the sequence assigned to W was done so based on the presence of W-specific repeats. These repeats have now been shown to be not specific to chromosome W. Thus, the only portions of GGAW which should currently be considered specific to W are:
Chr W, bases 1 - 195831
Chr W, bases 4895452 - 4916845
All of Chr W_random

Current Release 31.1g
Last Update:  22-03-2005
Ensembl gene predictions:  17784
(incl. 75 pseudogenes)   
Genscan gene predictions:  77600
Ensembl gene exons:  185326
Ensembl gene transcripts:  28491
Contigs:  111864
SuperContigs:  40516
Chromosomes:  30 (plus 23 other fragments)
Base Pairs:  1054180845
Golden Path Length:  1053957117
Ensembl What's new
Browse a Chromosome
Chicken chromosome 1 Chicken chromosome  2 Chicken chromosome  3 Chicken chromosome  4 Chicken chromosome  5 Chicken chromosome  6 Chicken chromosome  7 Chicken chromosome  8 Chicken chromosome  9 Chicken chromosome 10 Chicken chromosome 11 Chicken chromosome 12 Chicken chromosome 13 Chicken chromosome 14 Chicken chromosome 15 Chicken chromosome 16 Chicken chromosome 17 Chicken chromosome 18 Chicken chromosome 19 Chicken chromosome 20 Chicken chromosome 21 Chicken chromosome 22 Chicken chromosome 23 Chicken chromosome 24 Chicken chromosome 26 Chicken chromosome 27 Chicken chromosome 28 Chicken chromosome 32 Chicken chromosome W Chicken chromosome Z Chicken karyotype selector

Documentation & Help
About Ensembl Ensembl Homepage
For context-sensitive help
on any web page click
Help
Questions or suggestions? Try Ensembl Helpdesk, please send your comments and feedback to here
Documentation (includes tutorial on direct data access & instructions for installing Ensembl on your own site) Ensembl documentation
Ensembl Links and Site Map
Download Ensembl Ensembl Site Map
Ensembl Export Data in the format of your choice
Ensembl data mining tool
Other Species
Ensembl Mosquito Ensembl Honeybee Ensembl C.elegans Ensembl Dog Ensembl Ciona Ensembl Zebrafish Ensembl Fruitfly Ensembl Fugu Ensembl Human Ensembl Mouse Ensembl Chimp Ensembl Rat Ensembl S.cerevisiae Ensembl Tetraodon Ensembl X.tropicalis