Whole‐genome sequencing approaches for conservation biology: Advantages, limitations and practical recommendations

AP Fuentes‐Pardo, DE Ruzzante - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome resequencing (WGR) is a powerful method for addressing fundamental
evolutionary biology questions that have not been fully resolved using traditional methods …

[HTML][HTML] Repetitive DNA and next-generation sequencing: computational challenges and solutions

TJ Treangen, SL Salzberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Repetitive DNA sequences are abundant in a broad range of species, from bacteria to
mammals, and they cover nearly half of the human genome. Repeats have always …

Characterization and visualization of tandem repeats at genome scale

E Dolzhenko, A English, H Dashnow… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tandem repeat (TR) variation is associated with gene expression changes and numerous
rare monogenic diseases. Although long-read sequencing provides accurate full-length …

Rewiring of the fruit metabolome in tomato breeding

G Zhu, S Wang, Z Huang, S Zhang, Q Liao, C Zhang… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Humans heavily rely on dozens of domesticated plant species that have been further
improved through intensive breeding. To evaluate how breeding changed the tomato fruit …

A universal SNP and small-indel variant caller using deep neural networks

R Poplin, PC Chang, D Alexander, S Schwartz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite rapid advances in sequencing technologies, accurately calling genetic variants
present in an individual genome from billions of short, errorful sequence reads remains …

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

K Prüfer, C De Filippo, S Grote, F Mafessoni, P Korlević… - Science, 2017 - science.org
To date, the only Neandertal genome that has been sequenced to high quality is from an
individual found in Southern Siberia. We sequenced the genome of a female Neandertal …

ANGSD: analysis of next generation sequencing data

TS Korneliussen, A Albrechtsen, R Nielsen - BMC bioinformatics, 2014 - Springer
Background High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies are generating vast amounts of
data. Fast, flexible and memory efficient implementations are needed in order to facilitate …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal seeds from hybrid rice by simultaneous genome engineering of meiosis and fertilization genes

C Wang, Q Liu, Y Shen, Y Hua, J Wang, J Lin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Heterosis, or hybrid vigor, is exploited by breeders to produce elite high-yielding crop lines,
but beneficial phenotypes are lost in subsequent generations owing to genetic segregation …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating mapping-, assembly-and haplotype-based approaches for calling variants in clinical sequencing applications

A Rimmer, H Phan, I Mathieson, Z Iqbal, SRF Twigg… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
High-throughput DNA sequencing technology has transformed genetic research and is
starting to make an impact on clinical practice. However, analyzing high-throughput …

[HTML][HTML] Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

E Huerta-Sánchez, X Jin, Asan, Z Bianba, BM Peter… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered many new environmental
conditions, including greater temperature extremes, different pathogens and higher …