Applications of Linked-Reads to Maize Genome Assembly

Date: Monday, January 16, 2017
Time: 1:30 PM
Room: Pacific Salon 1
Patrick S. Schnable , Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Heng-Cheng Hu , Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD
Clifton Dalgard , Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD
Alina Ott , Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Cheng-Ting Yeh , Iowa State University, Ames, IA
370M paired end reads of B73 maize generated by a HiSeq X Ten instrument were assembled using Supernova Assembler (ver. 1.1). Results from comparisons between the resulting assembly and the B73 RefGen_V4 will be presented and discussed.