The Future of Livestock Management: A Review of Real-Time Portable Sequencing Applied to Livestock.

ABSTRACT: Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinION has proven to be a valuable tool within human and microbial genetics. Its capacity to produce long reads in real time has opened up unique applications for portable sequencing. Examples include tracking the recent African swine fever outbreak in China and providing a diagnostic tool for disease in the cassava plant in Eastern Africa. Here we review the current applications of Oxford Nanopore sequencing in livestock, then focus on proposed applications in livestock agriculture for rapid diagnostics, base modification detection, reference genome assembly and genomic prediction. In particular, we propose a future application: 'crush-side genotyping' for real-time on-farm genotyping for extensive industries such as northern Australian beef production. An in

SUBMITTER: Lamb HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7763041 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature