The Genome 10K Project: a way forward

KP Koepfli, B Paten… - Annu. Rev. Anim …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Genome 10K Project was established in 2009 by a consortium of biologists and
genome scientists determined to facilitate the sequencing and analysis of the complete …

Genome-wide scans for footprints of natural selection

TK Oleksyk, MW Smith… - … Transactions of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Detecting recent selected 'genomic footprints' applies directly to the discovery of disease
genes and in the imputation of the formative events that molded modern population genetic …

Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life

HA Lewin, GE Robinson, WJ Kress… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Increasing our understanding of Earth's biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its
resources are among the most crucial scientific and social challenges of the new …

The Peach v2. 0 release: high-resolution linkage mapping and deep resequencing improve chromosome-scale assembly and contiguity

I Verde, J Jenkins, L Dondini, S Micali, G Pagliarani… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background The availability of the peach genome sequence has fostered relevant research
in peach and related Prunus species enabling the identification of genes underlying …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Genome evolution and meiotic maps by massively parallel DNA sequencing: spotted gar, an outgroup for the teleost genome duplication

A Amores, J Catchen, A Ferrara, Q Fontenot… - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Genomic resources for hundreds of species of evolutionary, agricultural, economic, and
medical importance are unavailable due to the expense of well-assembled genome …

New approaches for genome assembly and scaffolding

ES Rice, RE Green - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Affordable, high-throughput DNA sequencing has accelerated the pace of genome
assembly over the past decade. Genome assemblies from high-throughput, short-read …

Using linkage maps to correct and scaffold de novo genome assemblies: methods, challenges, and computational tools

JL Fierst - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Modern high-throughput DNA sequencing has made it possible to inexpensively produce
genome sequences, but in practice many of these draft genomes are fragmented and …

Multiple recent horizontal transfers of a large genomic region in cheese making fungi

K Cheeseman, J Ropars, P Renault, J Dupont… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
While the extent and impact of horizontal transfers in prokaryotes are widely acknowledged,
their importance to the eukaryotic kingdom is unclear and thought by many to be anecdotal …

Chromosome-scale assemblies reveal the structural evolution of African cichlid genomes

MA Conte, R Joshi, EC Moore, SP Nandamuri… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background African cichlid fishes are well known for their rapid radiations and are a model
system for studying evolutionary processes. Here we compare multiple, high-quality …