Whole genome sequencing contributions and challenges in disease reduction focused on malaria

OP Akoniyon, TS Adewumi, L Maharaj, OO Oyegoke… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Malaria is one of the most severe life-threatening human vector-borne
diseases worldwide today, leading to high mortality. Children under the age of five and …

Lateral gene transfer mechanisms and pan-genomes in eukaryotes

SJ Sibbald, L Eme, JM Archibald, AJ Roger - Trends in parasitology, 2020 - cell.com
Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is well known as an important driver of genome evolution in
bacteria and archaea, but its importance in eukaryote evolution has yet to be fully …

A comparative evaluation of hybrid error correction methods for error-prone long reads

S Fu, A Wang, KF Au - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Third-generation sequencing technologies have advanced the progress of the
biological research by generating reads that are substantially longer than second …

Comprehensive evaluation of non-hybrid genome assembly tools for third-generation PacBio long-read sequence data

V Jayakumar, Y Sakakibara - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Long reads obtained from third-generation sequencing platforms can help overcome the
long-standing challenge of the de novo assembly of sequences for the genomic analysis of …

Refining the transcriptome of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using amplification-free RNA-seq

L Chappell, P Ross, L Orchard, TJ Russell, TD Otto… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Plasmodium parasites undergo several major developmental transitions during
their complex lifecycle, which are enabled by precisely ordered gene expression programs …

[HTML][HTML] Progression of the canonical reference malaria parasite genome from 2002–2019

U Böhme, TD Otto, M Sanders, CI Newbold… - Wellcome open …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Here we describe the ways in which the sequence and annotation of the Plasmodium
falciparum reference genome has changed since its publication in 2002. As the malaria …

Long-read assembly and comparative evidence-based reanalysis of Cryptosporidium genome sequences reveal expanded transporter repertoire and duplication of …

RP Baptista, Y Li, A Sateriale, MJ Sanders… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Cryptosporidiosis is a leading cause of waterborne diarrheal disease globally and an
important contributor to mortality in infants and the immunosuppressed. Despite its …

A survey of transcriptome complexity in Sus scrofa using single-molecule long-read sequencing

Y Li, C Fang, Y Fu, A Hu, C Li, C Zou, X Li… - DNA …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing (AS) and fusion transcripts produce a vast expansion of transcriptomes
and proteomes diversity. However, the reliability of these events and the extend of …

Strains used in whole organism Plasmodium falciparum vaccine trials differ in genome structure, sequence, and immunogenic potential

KA Moser, EF Drábek, A Dwivedi, EM Stucke… - genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) whole-organism sporozoite vaccines have
been shown to provide significant protection against controlled human malaria infection …

Analysis of transcripts and splice isoforms in Medicago sativa L. by single-molecule long-read sequencing

Y Chao, J Yuan, T Guo, L Xu, Z Mu, L Han - Plant Molecular Biology, 2019 - Springer
Key message The full-length transcriptome of alfalfa was analyzed with PacBio single-
molecule long-read sequencing technology. The transcriptome data provided full-length …