Davis, Seth Jon orcid.org/0000-0001-5928-9046 (2016) Using MinION nanopore sequencing to generate a de novo eukaryotic draft genome: preliminary physiological and genomic description of the extremophilic red alga Galdieria sulphuraria strain SAG 107.79. Discussion Paper.
Abstract
We report here the de novo assembly of a eukaryotic genome using only MinION nanopore DNA sequence data by examining a novel Galdieria sulphuraria genome: strain SAG 107.79. This extremophilic red alga was targeted for full genome sequencing as we found that it could grow on a wide variety of carbon sources and could uptake several precious and rare-earth metals, which places it as an interesting biological target for disparate industrial biotechnological uses. Phylogenetic analysis clearly places this as a species of G. sulphuraria. Here we additionally show that the genome assembly generated via nanopore long read data was of a high quality with regards to low total number of contiguous DNA sequences and long length of assemblies. Collectively, the MinION platform looks to rival other competing approaches for de novo genome acquisition with available informatics tools for assembly. The genome assembly is publically released as NCBI BioProject PRJNA330791. Further work is needed to reduce small insertion-deletion errors, relative to short-read assemblies.
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Item Type: | Monograph |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, The Author(s). |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Biology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2016 08:26 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:04 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1101/076208 |
Status: | Published |
Identification Number: | 10.1101/076208 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105094 |