Genetic variation and the de novo assembly of human genomes

MJP Chaisson, RK Wilson, EE Eichler - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The discovery of genetic variation and the assembly of genome sequences are both
inextricably linked to advances in DNA-sequencing technology. Short-read massively …

Understanding explosive diversification through cichlid fish genomics

W Salzburger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Owing to their taxonomic, phenotypic, ecological and behavioural diversity and propensity
for explosive diversification, the assemblages of cichlid fish in the East African Great Lakes …

OrthoVenn3: an integrated platform for exploring and visualizing orthologous data across genomes

J Sun, F Lu, Y Luo, L Bie, L Xu, Y Wang - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Advancements in comparative genomics research have led to a growing interest in studying
species evolution and genetic diversity. To facilitate this research, OrthoVenn3 has been …

[HTML][HTML] Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

A Rhie, SA McCarthy, O Fedrigo, J Damas, G Formenti… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
High-quality and complete reference genome assemblies are fundamental for the
application of genomics to biology, disease, and biodiversity conservation. However, such …

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

S Feng, J Stiller, Y Deng, J Armstrong, QI Fang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and
characterizing biodiversity,,–. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to …

Evolutionary analysis of a complete chicken genome

Z Huang, Z Xu, H Bai, Y Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Microchromosomes are prevalent in nonmammalian vertebrates [PD Waters et al., Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118 (2021)], but a few of them are missing in bird genome assemblies …

[HTML][HTML] Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

N Dussex, T Van Der Valk, HE Morales, CW Wheat… - Cell Genomics, 2021 - cell.com
The kākāpō is a flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. Once common in the archipelago,
only 201 individuals remain today, most of them descending from an isolated island …

[HTML][HTML] Progressive Cactus is a multiple-genome aligner for the thousand-genome era

J Armstrong, G Hickey, M Diekhans, IT Fiddes… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
New genome assemblies have been arriving at a rapidly increasing pace, thanks to
decreases in sequencing costs and improvements in third-generation sequencing …

Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

NA O'Leary, MW Wright, JR Brister, S Ciufo… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The RefSeq project at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) maintains
and curates a publicly available database of annotated genomic, transcript, and protein …

Uniclust databases of clustered and deeply annotated protein sequences and alignments

M Mirdita, L Von Den Driesch, C Galiez… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present three clustered protein sequence databases, Uniclust90, Uniclust50, Uniclust30
and three databases of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), Uniboost10, Uniboost20 and …