Accurate, automated taxonomic assignment of genebank accessions: a new method demonstrated using high-throughput marker data from 10,000 Capsicum spp. accessions.

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We demonstrate how an algorithm that uses cheap genetic marker data can ensure the taxonomic assignments of genebank samples are complete, intuitive, and consistent-which enhances their value. To maximise the benefit of genebank resources, accurate and complete taxonomic assignments are imperative. The rise of genebank genomics allows genetic methods to be used to ensure this, but these need to be largely automated since the number of samples dealt with is too great for efficient manual recategorisation, however no clearly optimal method has yet arisen. A recent landmark genebank genomic study sequenced over 10,000 genebank accessions of peppers (Capsicum spp.), a species of great commercial, cultural, and scientific importance, which suffers from much taxonomic ambigui

SUBMITTER: Rabanus-Wallace MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495273 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature