All data produced by the D. purpureum Genome Project are publicly available. 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.

Genome Biol. 2011 Feb 28;12(2):R20.

Gene Information
DPU_G - JGI mapping [tab-delimited]
Ortholog information (Aug 25, 2010)
[tab delimited]

Sequences and Alignments
Sequences in FASTA format [fasta download area]
D. discoideum proteins aligned on D. purpureum genome by TBLASTN (75%) [zip file]
D. discoideum proteins with no hits in D. purpureum(25%) [zip file]
ESTs aligned to the genome by BLASTN (57%) [zip file]
ESTs with no hits on the genome (43%) [zip file]

Chromosomal Information
Information about 838 unassembled contigs with links to Genome Browser [view]