A guide to sequence your favorite plant genomes

With the rapid development of sequencing technology and the plummeting cost, assembling whole genomes from non‐model plants will soon become routine for plant systematists and evolutionary biologists. Here we summarize and compare several of the latest genome sequencing and assembly approaches, offering a practical guide on how to approach a genome project. We also highlight certain precautions that need to be taken before investing time and money into a genome project.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Applications in Plant Sciences

• Publication date

  2018-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/aps3.1030PMID 29732260PMCID 5895188
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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