Home    Site Map     FAQ         Links       Genome Browser  
Wheat Genome Facts
 

Wheat nucleotide sequences in GenBank:

GenBank division*     Entries          Total bp     
dbEST: 880,515 339,239,649
dbGSS: 32,581 6,271,668
dbHTG: 80 1,552,156
dbPLN: 7,843 10,035,245
dbSTS: 658 311,744
WGS: 5,055 3,691,256
Total: 926,732 361,101,718

*:Click each division to get the most updated information in GenBank.

Updated on 11/28/06.



Wheat related publications in PubMed:
Number of publications in PubMed with wheat in title: 9,256
Number of publications in PubMed with wheat in abstract: 23,116

Click here to see the titles, authors, citations, etc. for the most recent wheat publications.



Statistics of TIGR annotated genes:
Wheat Gene Features  
Total BAC number: 67
Total gene models: 582
Gene density (bp per gene):
Average gene size (bp): 2,220
Average exon number: 2.8
Average exon length (bp): 318
Average exon GC content (%): 55.9
Average intron number: 1.8
Average intron length (bp): 694
Average intron GC content (%): 43.9



Genes from TIGR annotated wheat BACs:
  Gene number Percentage Ave. gene size (bp)
Known/Putative: 190 32.6 2721
Expressed: 25 4.3 3368
Conserved Hypothetical: 32 5.5 1871
Hypothetical: 335 57.6 1884



Statistics on Non-TE Related Genes from TIGR annotated wheat BACs:
  Gene number Percentage Ave gene size (bp)
Known genes: 65 34.6 2711
Expressed genes: 4 2.2 1213
Hypothetical genes: 119 63.3 1487
Total Non-TE Related Genes 188 100 2565

Click here for a description of TIGR wheat annotation methods.

 
 
   
 
For Wheat Comments/Questions send mail to the JCVI wheat team.
 
Photographs courtesy of the USDA Agricultural Research Service