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SUBMITTER: Zimin AV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5437942 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zimin Aleksey V AV Stevens Kristian A KA Crepeau Marc W MW Puiu Daniela D Wegrzyn Jill L JL Yorke James A JA Langley Charles H CH Neale David B DB Salzberg Steven L SL
GigaScience 20170101 1
The 22-gigabase genome of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is one of the largest ever sequenced. The draft assembly published in 2014 was built entirely from short Illumina reads, with lengths ranging from 100 to 250 base pairs (bp). The assembly was quite fragmented, containing over 11 million contigs whose weighted average (N50) size was 8206 bp. To improve this result, we generated approximately 12-fold coverage in long reads using the Single Molecule Real Time sequencing technology developed at P ...[more]