De novo assembly and population genomic survey of natural yeast isolates with the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd (Oxford, UK) have recently commercialized MinION, a small single-molecule nanopore sequencer, that offers the possibility of sequencing long DNA fragments from small genomes in a matter of seconds. The Oxford Nanopore technology is truly disruptive; it has the potential to revolutionize genomic applications due to its portability, low cost, and ease of use compared with existing long reads sequencing technologies. The MinION sequencer enables the rapid sequencing of small eukaryotic genomes, such as the yeast genome. Combined with existing assembler algorithms, near complete genome assemblies can be generated and comprehensive population genomic analyses can be performed.

Results

Here, we resequenced the genome of the Saccharomyces

SUBMITTER: Istace B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5466710 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature