Chromosome-level assembly of the water buffalo genome surpasses human and goat genomes in sequence contiguity

oleh: Wai Yee Low, Rick Tearle, Derek M. Bickhart, Benjamin D. Rosen, Sarah B. Kingan, Thomas Swale, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, Terence D. Murphy, Rachel Young, Lucas Lefevre, David A. Hume, Andrew Collins, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Timothy P. L. Smith, John L. Williams

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-01-01

Deskripsi

Despite technological advances, chromosome-level assemblies of mammalian genomes are still rare. Here, the authors use PacBio, Chicago and Hi-C approaches to generate a highly contiguous and partially-phased genome assembly for the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis