Comparison of the Equine Reference Sequence with Its Sanger Source Data and New Illumina Reads.

The reference assembly for the domestic horse, EquCab2, published in 2009, was built using approximately 30 million Sanger reads from a Thoroughbred mare named Twilight. Contiguity in the assembly was facilitated using nearly 315 thousand BAC end sequences from Twilight's half brother Bravo. Si...

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Main Authors: Jovan Rebolledo-Mendez, Matthew S Hestand, Stephen J Coleman, Zheng Zeng, Ludovic Orlando, James N MacLeod, Ted Kalbfleisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4479572?pdf=render