Haplotype-resolved assembly of a tetraploid potato genome using long reads and low-depth offspring data

Autor: Rebecca Serra Mari, Sven Schrinner, Richard Finkers, Freya Maria Rosemarie Ziegler, Paul Arens, Maximilian H.-W. Schmidt, Björn Usadel, Gunnar W. Klau, Tobias Marschall
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Genome Biology, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1474-760X
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03160-z
Popis: Abstract Potato is one of the world’s major staple crops, and like many important crop plants, it has a polyploid genome. Polyploid haplotype assembly poses a major computational challenge. We introduce a novel strategy for the assembly of polyploid genomes and present an assembly of the autotetraploid potato cultivar Altus. Our method uses low-depth sequencing data from an offspring population to achieve chromosomal clustering and haplotype phasing on the assembly graph. Our approach generates high-quality assemblies of individual chromosomes with haplotype-specific sequence resolution of whole chromosome arms and can be applied in common breeding scenarios where collections of offspring are available.
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