NCBI RefSeq has finished its initial annotation of the new mouse reference assembly, GRCm39, recently released by the Genome Reference Consortium. This is the first coordinate-changing update to the mouse reference since the 2012 release of GRCm38, resolving over 400 issues, almost doubling the scaffold N50, closing almost half the gaps, and adding 1.9 Mb of sequence. It’s a big deal!Figure 1. The Genome Data Viewer showing the annotation for the mouse pseudoautosomal region that includes annotations of four genes that were previously missing: Sts, Nlgn4l, Akap17a, and 2510022D24Rik. 

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