Improvements in long read DNA sequencing and related techniques facilitated the
generation of complex eukaryotic genomes. Despite these advances, the quality of …

Whereas de novo assemblies of RNA-Seq data are being published for a growing number of
species across the tree of life, there are currently no broadly accepted methods for …

Next generation sequencing technologies provide unprecedented power to explore the
repertoire of genes and their alternative splice variants, collectively defining the …

The Zingiberales are an iconic order of monocotyledonous plants comprising eight families
with distinctive and diverse floral morphologies and representing an important ecological …

The commercial release of third-generation sequencing technologies (TGSTs), giving long
and ultra-long sequencing reads, has stimulated the development of new tools for …

Asparagus setaceus is a popular ornamental plant cultivated in tropical and subtropical
regions globally. Here, we constructed a chromosome-scale reference genome of A …

The utility of 18S and 26S in broad phylogenetic analyses has been much maligned due in
large part to the low signal in both genes. However, few analyses have employed complete …

Allopolyploid oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is an important oil crop and vegetable.
However, the latest version of its reference genome, with collapsed duplications, gaps, and …

Next-generation sequencing enables the study of species without a sequenced genome at
the 'omics' level. Custom transcriptome databases are generated and global expression …

Background Single copy genes are common across angiosperm genomes. With the
sufficiently high quality sequenced genomes, the identification of large-scale single copy …