Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here...
1: Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):79-92.Click here to read Links
Comment in:
Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):13.
Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):32-6.
Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):36-9.
Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):53.
Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):58-9.
Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):60-3.
Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):92-100.

A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica).

Beijing Genomics Institute/Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101300, China.

We have produced a draft sequence of the rice genome for the most widely cultivated subspecies in China, Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica, by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The genome was 466 megabases in size, with an estimated 46,022 to 55,615 genes. Functional coverage in the assembled sequences was 92.0%. About 42.2% of the genome was in exact 20-nucleotide oligomer repeats, and most of the transposons were in the intergenic regions between genes. Although 80.6% of predicted Arabidopsis thaliana genes had a homolog in rice, only 49.4% of predicted rice genes had a homolog in A. thaliana. The large proportion of rice genes with no recognizable homologs is due to a gradient in the GC content of rice coding sequences.

PMID: 11935017 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]