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

ABSTRACT: Chromosome-scale genome sequence assemblies underpin pan-genomic studies. Recent genome assembly efforts in the large-genome Triticeae crops wheat and barley have relied on the commercial closed-source assembly algorithm DeNovoMagic. We present TRITEX, an open-source computational workflow that combines paired-end, mate-pair, 10X Genomics linked-read with chromosome conformation capture sequencing data to construct sequence scaffolds with megabase-scale contiguity ordered into chromosomal pseudomolecules. We evaluate the performance of TRITEX on publicly available sequence data of tetraploid wild emmer and hexaploid bread wheat, and construct an improved annotated reference genome sequence assembly of the barley cultivar Morex as a community resource.

SUBMITTER: Monat C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6918601 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Monat Cécile C Padmarasu Sudharsan S Lux Thomas T Wicker Thomas T Gundlach Heidrun H Himmelbach Axel A Ens Jennifer J Li Chengdao C Muehlbauer Gary J GJ Schulman Alan H AH Waugh Robbie R Braumann Ilka I Pozniak Curtis C Scholz Uwe U Mayer Klaus F X KFX Spannagl Manuel M Stein Nils N Mascher Martin M

Genome biology 20191218 1

Chromosome-scale genome sequence assemblies underpin pan-genomic studies. Recent genome assembly efforts in the large-genome Triticeae crops wheat and barley have relied on the commercial closed-source assembly algorithm DeNovoMagic. We present TRITEX, an open-source computational workflow that combines paired-end, mate-pair, 10X Genomics linked-read with chromosome conformation capture sequencing data to construct sequence scaffolds with megabase-scale contiguity ordered into chromosomal pseudo ...[more]

PMID: 31849336

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

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

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