Castor bean (Ricinus communis) is an oilseed crop that belongs to the spurge
(Euphorbiaceae) family, which comprises∼ 6,300 species that include cassava (Manihot …

Recent advances in high‐throughput sequencing present a new opportunity to deeply probe
an organism's transcriptome. In this study, we used Illumina‐based massively parallel …

Background In order to maintain genome information accurately and relevantly, original
genome annotations need to be updated and evaluated regularly. Manual reannotation of …

Since the publication of the first fungal genome in 1996, over 400 fungal genome projects
have been launched, which makes fungi the most sequenced eukaryotic taxon. In this …

Abstract Background The species Brassica rapa includes important vegetable and oil crops.
It also serves as an excellent model system to study polyploidy-related genome evolution …

Background Accurate structural annotation is important for prediction of function and
required for in vitro approaches to characterize or validate the gene expression products …

The fast development of genome sequencing technologies has provided scientists with
enormous amount of DNA sequences that keep increasing exponentially. The task of …

In recent years, modern high-throughput techniques in genome and post-genome research
have made a marked impact on the marine sciences. Today, massively parallel DNA …

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