Improving the ostrich genome assembly using optical mapping data

GigaScience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Jilin ^a   Li, Cai ^a,b   Zhou, Qi ^c   Zhang, Guojie ^a,d  

^a BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Genome assembly; Optical mapping; Ostrich

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA PROCESSING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOME; GENOME ASSEMBLY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL MAPPING; OSTRICH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX CHROMOSOME; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; GENOME; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84979582275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13742-015-0062-9     Document Type: Article

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