Welcome to the Dictyostelium purpureum web portal!
This site contains:
- Genome Browser: For displaying annotations
on D. purpureum genome.
- BLAST tool: The updated dictyBase universal dictyostelid
blast interface to search for similarities between D. purpureum and other genomes
- Download section :
Download genomic sequences, alignments, mapping etc.
The Dictyostelium purpureum genes have not been manually curated. Please use the gene predictions with caution!
Sample entry points for browsing the D. purpureum genome
Genome statistics:
Feature type |
Number |
supercontig |
838 |
EST |
36096 |
gene |
12410 |
polypeptide |
12410 |
Feature type |
Min |
Max |
Ave |
Median |
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Phylogeny of 5 Dictyostelid species: constructed from 32 orthologous genes in
all species with genome sequence using Entamoeba histolytica as the outgroup. The
statistical support for all the nodes is 100%.
By Pauline Schaap & Gernot Gloeckner
The D. purpureum genome was sequenced as a collaboration between the
Joint Genome Institute and Baylor College of Medicine.
Please cite:
Sucgang, Kuo, Tian, Salerno, Parikh, Feasley, Dalin, Tu, Huang, Barry, Lindquist, Shapiro, Bruce, Schmutz, Salamov, Fey, Gaudet, Anjard, Babu, Basu, Bushmanova, van der Wel, Katoh-Kurasawa, Dinh, Coutinho, Saito, Elias, Schaap, Kay, Henrissat, Eichinger, Rivero, Putnam, West, Loomis, Chisholm, Shaulsky, Strassmann, Queller, Kuspa & Grigoriev (2011) 'Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum.' 12:R20