The present and future of de novo whole-genome assembly

J Sohn, JW Nam - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
As the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, various de novo assembly
algorithms based on the de Bruijn graph have been developed to construct chromosome …

Advanced cell culture techniques for cancer drug discovery

CJ Lovitt, TB Shelper, VM Avery - Biology, 2014 - mdpi.com
Human cancer cell lines are an integral part of drug discovery practices. However, modeling
the complexity of cancer utilizing these cell lines on standard plastic substrata, does not …

Long-read sequence assembly: a technical evaluation in barley

M Mascher, T Wicker, J Jenkins, C Plott, T Lux… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sequence assembly of large and repeat-rich plant genomes has been challenging,
requiring substantial computational resources and often several complementary sequence …

Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution

PG Hofstatter, G Thangavel, T Lux, P Neumann… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The centromere represents a single region in most eukaryotic chromosomes. However,
several plant and animal lineages assemble holocentromeres along the entire chromosome …

A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2014 - science.org
An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)
genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated …

Whole-genome landscape of Medicago truncatula symbiotic genes

Y Pecrix, SE Staton, E Sallet, C Lelandais-Brière… - Nature Plants, 2018 - nature.com
Advances in deciphering the functional architecture of eukaryotic genomes have been
facilitated by recent breakthroughs in sequencing technologies, enabling a more …

A fast, lock-free approach for efficient parallel counting of occurrences of k-mers

G Marçais, C Kingsford - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Counting the number of occurrences of every k-mer (substring of length k) in a
long string is a central subproblem in many applications, including genome assembly, error …

Using the Velvet de novo Assembler for Short‐Read Sequencing Technologies

DR Zerbino - Current protocols in bioinformatics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Velvet de novo assembler was designed to build contigs and eventually scaffolds from
short‐read sequencing data. This protocol describes how to use Velvet, interpret its output …

TRITEX: chromosome-scale sequence assembly of Triticeae genomes with open-source tools

C Monat, S Padmarasu, T Lux, T Wicker, H Gundlach… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Chromosome-scale genome sequence assemblies underpin pan-genomic studies. Recent
genome assembly efforts in the large-genome Triticeae crops wheat and barley have relied …

GenomeTools: a comprehensive software library for efficient processing of structured genome annotations

G Gremme, S Steinbiss, S Kurtz - IEEE/ACM transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Genome annotations are often published as plain text files describing genomic features and
their subcomponents by an implicit annotation graph. In this paper, we present the …