GENOMES

At Algenuity, transparency and traceability are absolutes with regard to the ingredients that we produce. Our commitment to ingredient product safety and composition goes beyond simple composition analysis. We have derived fully annotated genome sequences for both our parental Chlorella strains and our derived chlorophyll-deficient strains, including all our production strains. Whole genome sequencing and variant analysis enables us to identify the changes to the genomic sequences in our proprietary production strains that are likely to be causative changes that are associated with our desirable ingredient properties such as colour, relative protein content and more. 

To download the data associated with each species please click the links. These files contain the annotated genome sequences and associated data for the wild-type (parental) Chlorella sorokiniana UTEX 1230 and proprietary Chlorella vulgaris 4TC3/16 strains.

This data can be used a resource for R&D purposes. C. sorokiniana UTEX 1230 was sequenced by Hovde et al. (2018) and C. vulgaris 4TC3/16  sequenced by Algenuity using a combination of Pac-Bio and Illumina sequencing. If you use the annotated genome data please cite the existing webpage as the primary reference. Both strains were annotated by Algenuity using a custom MAKER2 (Holt & Yandell, 2011) pipeline.

References:

Holt, C., Yandell, M. MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects. BMC Bioinformatics 12, 491 (2011). doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-491

Hovde Blake T., Hanschen Erik R., Steadman Tyler Christina R., Lo Chien-Chi, Kunde Yuliya, Davenport Karen, Daligault Hajnalka, Msanne Joseph, Canny Stephanie, Eyun Seong-il, Riethoven Jean-Jack M., Polle Juergen, Starkenburg Shawn R. Genomic characterization reveals significant divergence withinChlorella sorokiniana (Chlorellales, Trebouxiophyceae)

Algal Research. 35, 449-461 (2018). doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.09.012