The Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) genome, which has been sequenced by whole-genome shotgun sequencing and by using the Ramen assembler, is approximately 700Mb in length and comprises 24 pairs of chromosomes; 2 metacentric, 8 submetacentric, 1 subtelocentric and 13 acrocentric chromosomes in haploid condition. The genome sequencing and assembly for MEDAKA1 (October 2005) were provided by the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and the University of Tokyo.
This Ensembl website presents sequence data provided by the two institutes. It also displays their gene set together with the Ensembl gene set and related analysis. See the data release policy for the medaka genome.