Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture

M Thudi, R Palakurthi, JC Schnable… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Unlocking plant genetics with telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies

V Garg, A Bohra, M Mascher, M Spannagl, X Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contiguous genome sequence assemblies will help us to realize the full potential of crop
translational genomics. Recent advances in sequencing technologies, especially long-read …

De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes

MB Hufford, AS Seetharam, MR Woodhouse… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We report de novo genome assemblies, transcriptomes, annotations, and methylomes for
the 26 inbreds that serve as the founders for the maize nested association mapping …

[HTML][HTML] GFF utilities: GffRead and GffCompare

G Pertea, M Pertea - F1000Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
GTF (Gene Transfer Format) and GFF (General Feature Format) are popular file formats
used by bioinformatics programs to represent and exchange information about various …

Gapless assembly of maize chromosomes using long-read technologies

J Liu, AS Seetharam, K Chougule, S Ou… - Genome Biology, 2020 - Springer
Creating gapless telomere-to-telomere assemblies of complex genomes is one of the
ultimate challenges in genomics. We use two independent assemblies and an optical map …

Clinical Diagnostics of Bacterial Infections and Their Resistance to Antibiotics—Current State and Whole Genome Sequencing Implementation Perspectives

E Avershina, A Khezri, R Ahmad - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), defined as the ability of microorganisms to withstand
antimicrobial treatment, is responsible for millions of deaths annually. The rapid spread of …

Plant mitochondrial genome map (PMGmap): A software tool for the comprehensive visualization of coding, noncoding and genome features of plant mitochondrial …

X Zhang, H Chen, Y Ni, B Wu, J Li… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tools for visualizing genomes are essential for investigating genomic features and their
interactions. Currently, tools designed originally for animal mitogenomes and plant …

A proposed metric set for evaluation of genome assembly quality

P Wang, F Wang - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Quality control is essential for genome assemblies; however, a consensus has yet to be
reached on what metrics should be adopted for the evaluation of assembly quality. N50 is …

[HTML][HTML] GAEP: a comprehensive genome assembly evaluating pipeline

Y Zhang, HW Lu, J Ruan - Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of sequencing technologies, especially the maturity of third-
generation sequencing technologies, there has been a significant increase in the number …

Effect of sequence depth and length in long-read assembly of the maize inbred NC358

S Ou, J Liu, KM Chougule, A Fungtammasan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Improvements in long-read data and scaffolding technologies have enabled rapid
generation of reference-quality assemblies for complex genomes. Still, an assessment of …