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SUBMITTER: Warr A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7448572 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Warr Amanda A Affara Nabeel N Aken Bronwen B Beiki Hamid H Bickhart Derek M DM Billis Konstantinos K Chow William W Eory Lel L Finlayson Heather A HA Flicek Paul P Girón Carlos G CG Griffin Darren K DK Hall Richard R Hannum Greg G Hourlier Thibaut T Howe Kerstin K Hume David A DA Izuogu Osagie O Kim Kristi K Koren Sergey S Liu Haibou H Manchanda Nancy N Martin Fergal J FJ Nonneman Dan J DJ O'Connor Rebecca E RE Phillippy Adam M AM Rohrer Gary A GA Rosen Benjamin D BD Rund Laurie A LA Sargent Carole A CA Schook Lawrence B LB Schroeder Steven G SG Schwartz Ariel S AS Skinner Ben M BM Talbot Richard R Tseng Elizabeth E Tuggle Christopher K CK Watson Mick M Smith Timothy P L TPL Archibald Alan L AL
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<h4>Background</h4>The domestic pig (Sus scrofa) is important both as a food source and as a biomedical model given its similarity in size, anatomy, physiology, metabolism, pathology, and pharmacology to humans. The draft reference genome (Sscrofa10.2) of a purebred Duroc female pig established using older clone-based sequencing methods was incomplete, and unresolved redundancies, short-range order and orientation errors, and associated misassembled genes limited its utility.<h4>Results</h4>We p ...[more]