About the Project

The HGSC is sequencing the genome of the hamadryas baboon (Papio hamdryas).

The project is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

Access to the Data

All sequence reads are deposited in the NCBI trace archive or the Short Read Archive as they are produced. Assemblies of contigs and scaffolds, as well as Blast access to the data will be made available here and at the relevant public databases as soon as they are produced.

Genome Assembly

The preliminary draft assembly (5.3x coverage) is available for download as contigs or linearized scaffolds by using the FTP data link in the sidebar. The assembly is described in more detail in the README file.

SNP Data

Short read sequences from the Illumina platform have been mapped to the preliminary assembly. The list of alternate alleles from this mapping data is available from the FTP data link in the sidebar. The sequences are available from the NCBI SRA link in the sidebar.

BLAST Searches

HGSC provides BLAST searches of the genomic assemblies, either as contigs or as linearized chromosome sequences. The WGS sequence and the unassembled reads (sequencing reads that did not end up in the genome assembly, the repetitive reads and the short reads used for polymorphism detection can also be searched by BLAST. The BLAST link is located in the sidebar

Traces are available from the NCBI Trace Archive and the NCBI Short Read Archive by using the link in the sidebar or by using NCBI MegaBLAST with the same species or cross species query.

Genome Assemblies

Date Released	Release Name	Coverage	Comments
Nov 2008	Pham_1.0	5.3x	Preliminary assembly using Sanger WGS reads, 454 fragment reads, and 454 paired end reads from small insert clones.

Resources

Report from the Annotating the Human Genome Working Group

NCBI Taxonomy Browser

NHGRI Genome Sequencing Proposals

Conditions for use