The purpose of the release of the preliminary data for the Paramecium tetraurelia genome sequencing project is to enable the scientific community to use this information for studying individual genes and their biological effects.

Current annotation summary:
  Annotated genes 39,642
  Annotated transcripts 39,642
  Average number of coding exons per gene 3.28
  Average number of UTR exons per gene 0.25
  Average gene size (bp) 1,434
  Average CDS size (bp) 1,362
  Average exon size (bp) 419