New zebrafish genome reference assembly GRCz10 now available

Created by Jonathan Knight
Sept 19, 2014
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The GRC announces the release of GRCz10. GRCz10 is the first zebrafish reference assembly produced by the GRC and replaces Zv9.
This is a major, coordinate changing, assembly release.
 
The assembly files can be retrieved from either the new or old GenBank FTP site:
New: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/genbank/vertebrate_other/Danio_rerio/all_assembly_versions/GCA_000002035.3_GRCz10/
Old: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/Eukaryotes/vertebrates_other/Danio_rerio/GRCz10
 
A summary of new features in GRCz10 is provided in the GRC blog post: “GRCz10 - The GRC's first zebrafish genome reference assembly”:http://genomeref.blogspot.com/
 
We welcome your feedback. Please write to us at zfish-help@sanger.ac.uk or use the form available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/contact.shtml

Best wishes,

Kerstin Howe on behalf of the Genome Reference Consortium