This site contains:

• The Genome Browser that allows to visualize each contig of the genome with alignments to D. discoideum proteins (75% D. discoideum proteins aligned to the D.purpureum genome)
• The new dictyBase universal dictyostelid BLAST server where you can use any sequence to search the D.purpureum and D. discoideum genomes
• The D.purpureum Downloads page containing mappings between different IDs and sequences in FASTA format
• A search function where you can search for gene IDs (e.g. DPU_G0068768), sequence IDs (e.g. DPU0071345), or JGI protein IDs (47329 )
• The genomic sequence has been assembled into 838 contigs containing 12410 predicted proteins
• 36096 EST sequences, 57% of which aligned to the genome

The D.purpureum genome was sequenced as a collaboration between the
Joint Genome Institute and Baylor College of Medicine. Please cite:

Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum.

Sucgang R, Kuo A, Tian X, Salerno W, Parikh A, Feasley CL, Dalin E, Tu H, Huang E, Barry K, Lindquist E, Shapiro H, Bruce D, Schmutz J, Salamov A, Fey P, Gaudet P, Anjard C, Babu MM, Basu S, Bushmanova Y, van der Wel H, Katoh-Kurasawa M, Dinh C, Coutinho PM, Saito T, Elias M, Schaap P, Kay RR, Henrissat B, Eichinger L, Rivero F, Putnam NH, West CM, Loomis WF, Chisholm RL, Shaulsky G, Strassmann JE, Queller DC, Kuspa A, Grigoriev IV.