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Title:   Author  item
                                            Bickhart, Derekitem
                                            Smith, Timothy

                                                         - *Tim*item
                                            Rosen, Benjamin

                                                         - *Ben*item
                                            KOREN	, SERGEY - National Institutes Of Health (NIH)item
                                            PHILLIPPY, ADAM - National Institutes Of Health (NIH)item
                                            HASTIE, ALEX - Bionano Genomics, Incitem
                                            SULLIVAN, SHAWN - Microsoftitem
                                            LIACHKO, IVAN - University Of Washingtonitem
                                            BURTON, JOSHUA - University Of Washingtonitem
                                            SAYRE, BRIAN - Virginia State Universityitem
                                            Liu, Ge

                                                         - *George*item
                                            Schroeder, Steven

                                                         - *Steve*item
                                            SONSTEGARD, TAD - Former ARS Employeeitem
                                            Van Tassell, Curtis

                                                         - *Curt*
  Submitted to: Plant and Animal Genome Conference Proceedings
                                    Publication Type: Abstract Only
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 1/12/2016
                                    Publication  Date: 1/12/2016
                                    Citation: Bickhart, D.M., Smith, T.P., Rosen, B.D., Koren	, S., Phillippy, A., Hastie, A.R., Sullivan, S.T., Liachko, I., Burton, J.N., Sayre, B.L., Liu, G., Schroeder, S.G., Sonstegard, T.S., Van Tassell, C.P. 2016. Improving the goat long-read assembly with optical mapping. Plant and Animal Genome Conference Proceedings. San Diego, CA, Jan. 9–13.Interpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: Reference genome assemblies provide important context in genetics by standardizing the order of genes and providing a universal set of coordinates for individual nucleotides. Often due to the high complexity of genic regions and higher copy number of genes involved in immune function, immunity-related genes are often misassembled in current reference assemblies. This problem is particularly ubiquitous in the reference genomes of non-model organisms as they often do not receive the years of curation necessary to resolve annotation and assembly errors. In this study, we reassemble a reference genome of the goat (Capra hircus) using modern PacBio technology in tandem with BioNano Genomics Irys optical maps and Lachesis clustering in order to provide a high quality reference assembly without the need for extensive filtering. Initial PacBio assemblies using P5C4 chemistry achieved contig N50's of 4 Megabases and a BUSCO completion score of 84.0%, which is comparable to several finished model organism reference assemblies. We used BioNano Genomics' Irys platform to generate 336 scaffolds from this data with a scaffold N50 of 24 megabases and total genome coverage of 98%. Lachesis interaction maps were used with a clustering algorithm to associate Irys scaffolds into the expected 30 chromosome physical maps. Comparisons of the initial hybrid scaffolds generated from the long read contigs and optical map information to a previously generated RH map revealed that the entirety of the Goat autosome 20 physical map was contained within one scaffold. Additionally, the BioNano scaffolding resolved several difficult regions that contained genes related to innate immunity which were problem regions in previous reference genome assemblies.

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