Quinoa genome assembly employing genomic variation for guided scaffolding.

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We propose to use the natural variation between individuals of a population for genome assembly scaffolding. In today's genome projects, multiple accessions get sequenced, leading to variant catalogs. Using such information to improve genome assemblies is attractive both cost-wise as well as scientifically, because the value of an assembly increases with its contiguity. We conclude that haplotype information is a valuable resource to group and order contigs toward the generation of pseudomolecules. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) has been under cultivation in Latin America for more than 7500 years. Recently, quinoa has gained increasing attention due to its stress resistance and its nutritional value. We generated a novel quinoa genome assembly for the Bolivian accession CH

SUBMITTER: Bodrug-Schepers A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8519820 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature