Small Genomes and Big Data: Adaptation of Plastid Genomics to the High-Throughput Era.

ABSTRACT: Plastid genome sequences are becoming more readily available with the increase in high-throughput sequencing, and whole-organelle genetic data is available for algae and plants from across the diversity of photosynthetic eukaryotes. This has provided incredible opportunities for studying species which may not be amenable to in vivo study or genetic manipulation or may not yet have been cultured. Research into plastid genomes has pushed the limits of what can be deduced from genomic information, and in particular genomic information obtained from public databases. In this Review, we discuss how research into plastid genomes has benefitted enormously from the explosion of publicly available genome sequence. We describe two case studies in how using publicly available gene data has supported

SUBMITTER: Klinger CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6723049 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature