Assembly Release QA Steps
Welcome to the Assembly Release: QA Guide 😀
Page created Fall. 2016 by Cath, Jairo, and ChrisV.
This page is currently a draft in progress.
For now, use Releasing_an_assembly instead.
Introduction
When a developer is ready for a new assembly to be released, the QA team (usually an individual of) will QA and release the assembly. This wiki section exists as a guide for the assembly QA and release process.
Change happens
Collaboration rocks. Keep me updated! Think of when you were new to the job - update the wiki with your poor, floundering, confused, past-self in mind. Don't hesitate to edit this puppy. Editing this wiki will bring gaggles of glittery giggling unicorn-riding leprechauns to you, and they will improvise a dope rap about you that would make Snoop Dog jelly.
Do storks bring new assemblies in?
While genbank and refseq assemblies can be claimed to be 'identical' that just means they use the same sequence. The names for everything are different, aptMan1 has contig names of the format NW_013982187v1 which is a RefSeq identifier.
- RefSeq assemblies:
- use accession ID: GCF_000002315.4 (e.g., galGal5)
- are delivered with chrMt (if they exisit)
- are delivered with NCBI gene predictions
- Genbank assemblies:
- use accession ID: GCA_000001305.2
- delivered without a chrMt.
- do not have gene predictions.
For the UCSC Genome Browser, it is preferable to use RefSeq assemblies (in part due to 'more data'). This is a "learn as we go" direction; historically GeneBank was preferred.
🔵 Ready to get started? Let's go to Assembly QA Part 1: DEV Steps
