Improvement of barley genome annotations by deciphering the Haruna Nijo genome.

ABSTRACT: Full-length (FL) cDNA sequences provide the most reliable evidence for the presence of genes in genomes. In this report, detailed gene structures of barley, whole genome shotgun (WGS) and additional transcript data of the cultivar Haruna Nijo were quality controlled and compared with the published Morex genome information. Haruna Nijo scaffolds have longer total sequence length with much higher N50 and fewer sequences than those in Morex WGS contigs. The longer Haruna Nijo scaffolds provided efficient FLcDNA mapping, resulting in high coverage and detection of the transcription start sites. In combination with FLcDNAs and RNA-Seq data from four different tissue samples of Haruna Nijo, we identified 51,249 gene models on 30,606 loci. Overall sequence similarity between Haruna Nijo and Morex

SUBMITTER: Sato K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4755524 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature