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Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655 str. K12 (GCA_000005845)

Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655 str. K12 (GCA_000005845)

Provider EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database | Taxonomy ID 511145

About Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655 str. K12 (GCA_000005845)

Information and statistics

View karyotypeExample region

Genome assembly: ASM584v2

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Download DNA sequence (FASTA)

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Example geneExample transcript

Gene annotation

What can I find? Protein-coding and non-coding genes, splice variants, cDNA and protein sequences, non-coding RNAs.

More about this genebuild

Download genes, cDNAs, ncRNA, proteins - FASTA - GFF3

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Pan-taxonomic tree

Comparative genomics

What can I find? Gene families based on HAMAP and PANTHER classification.

Homologues and gene trees including species across the pan-taxonomic range.

More about comparative analyses

Phylogenetic overview of gene families

Variation

This species currently has no variation database. However you can process your own variants using the Variant Effect Predictor:

Variant Effect Predictor