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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2020

Oxford Nanopore sequencing: new opportunities for plant genomics?

Kathryn Dumschott, Maximilian H-W Schmidt, Harmeet Singh Chawla, Rod Snowdon, Björn Usadel

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Kathryn DumschottInstitute for Biology I, BioSC, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Maximilian H-W SchmidtInstitute for Biology I, BioSC, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Harmeet Singh ChawlaDepartment of Plant Breeding, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Rod SnowdonDepartment of Plant Breeding, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Björn UsadelInstitute for Biology I, BioSC, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
University of Giessen · DECluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences · DEForschungszentrum Jülich · DEHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA sequencing was dominated by Sanger's chain termination method until the mid-2000s, when it was progressively supplanted by new sequencing technologies that can generate much larger quantities of data in a shorter time. At the forefront of these developments, long-read sequencing technologies (third-generation sequencing) can produce reads that are several kilobases in length. This greatly improves the accuracy of genome assemblies by spanning the highly repetitive segments that cause difficulty for second-generation short-read technologies. Third-generation sequencing is especially appealing for plant genomes, which can be extremely large with long stretches of highly repetitive DNA. Until recently, the low basecalling accuracy of third-generation technologies meant that accurate genome assembly required expensive, high-coverage sequencing followed by computational analysis to correct for errors. However, today's long-read technologies are more accurate and less expensive, making them the method of choice for the assembly of complex genomes. Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), a third-generation platform for the sequencing of native DNA strands, is particularly suitable for the generation of high-quality assemblies of highly repetitive plant genomes. Here we discuss the benefits of ONT, especially for the plant science community, and describe the issues that remain to be addressed when using ONT for plant genome sequencing.

Indexed as

High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingNanopore SequencingGenome, PlantGenomicsSequence Analysis, DNABasecallingde novo assemblygene annotationMinION flow cellOxford Nanoporethird-generation sequencing

Identifiers

PMID32459850
PMCPMC7501810
OpenAlexW3029878460

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