[ensembl-dev] Genome coverage

[Sam Seaver]

Dear Ensembl,

It's recently come to my somewhat naive attention that many eukaryotic
genomes are not fully sequenced. In other words, for the list of genes that
I download for any species, I should expect that there is a fraction of
genes missing.  What I'm trying to discover is whether I can reliably find
an estimate of this for each of the plant species I'm exploring.

I suspect that I would have to go back to each of the papers describing the
original genome, to see if the authors give an estimate.  Indeed, I
understand that this estimate is probably based on a comparative analysis
with other genomes.  Regardless, I'm hoping that somewhere within Ensembl,
there is a set of statistics that I can use directly, to declare how
"complete" a genome is for any given plant.  Does this exist?

Thanks
Sam Seaver

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Postdoctoral Fellow
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
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"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
   --T. S. Eliot
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