1) The document compares genome assemblies of rice using different sequencing techniques, finding that a combination of PacBio long reads corrected with Illumina and further shredded with long Illumina reads produced the best assembly with a contig NG50 of 36,127.
2) It also lists the collaborators on the rice genome assembly project between McCombie, Ware, and Pacific Biosciences labs, including researchers from Cornell.
3) Duckweed is proposed as a potential new biofuel that can yield about 7.5 gallons of ethanol per day from 0.1 tons of duckweed grown on an acre of land.
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1. INCREASED READ LENGTHAND
IMPROVED GENOMEASSEMBLIES WITH
PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES XL DNA
POLYMERASE
Antoniou E., Schatz M., Koren S., Rank D. ,Peluso P. ,
MoCombe P., Khitrov G. , McCouch S., McCombie R.
2. Product Releases Since Last AGBT
Feb 2012
C2 Launch
May 2012
v1.3.1 SW
Release –
Base Mods
Aug 2012
v1.3.2
MagBead
Release
Nov 2012
v1.3.3 –
Stage Start,
XL Chem
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SMRT Cells
V3
3. 40 tons of duckweed per acre per year ~.1 tons per day not accounting
for seasonal affects
.1 ton of duckweed yields ~ .025 tons of ethanol by weight and is ~7.5
gallons/day
Duckweed – the new Biofuel ?
Rob Martienssen, Evan Ernst
Can duckweed save the
world from global
warming?
by Rich Bowden - Apr 9
2009 -
www.thetechherald.com
7. Macrostomum lignano
a free-living flatworm with high regeneration capacity
Greg Hannon, Kaja Wasik, Michael Schatz James Gurtowski
Culture in laboratory
easy; feed on diatoms; kept in Petri
dishes with algae and light
Transparency highly transparent
Generation time 18 days
Accessibility to eggs single eggs, whole year through
Morphological knowledge well established
Plasticity high; can endure extreme starvation
Regeneration potential
head regenerates posterior end with
gonads; posterior end makes no new
head
Stem Cell System pluripotent
BrdU/H3 Staining easy by soaking
RNA interference easy by soaking
Amenable to forward and reverse
genetics
yes
Genome size and availability 700 MB, 5x coverage; early draft online
http://www.macgenome.org/
8. Worm; Compare two librariesThe quality of the sequencing library matters
Library 1
Library 2
N50 bases = 4640
N50 bases = 5122
9. Genome size is estimated at about 700 Mb
All Paths Illumina; 40X coverage
PacBio corrected reads; 7X
The ALLPATHS assembly; 62MB
The Celera assembly; 435M
With only short reads (fragment and jump libraries) ALLPATHS gave
us:
1.7kb N50 contig size
2kb N50 scaffold size
4kb N50 scaffold size with gaps
With only error corrected Pacbio Reads, Celera gave us:
7kb N50 contig size
Macrostomum lignano
preliminary genome assembly
10. - more than 3.5 billion people depend on rice for more than 20% of their
daily calories
- About 90% of rice is grown in Asia
- In Africa, rice is the fastest growing food staple
- An additional 8-10 million tons of rice needs to be produced every year
- The challenge is to produce this additional rice with less land, less
water, and less labor, in more efficient, environmentally-friendly
production systems that are more resilient to climate change
Rice
11. Rice genome
About 430 million base genome
About 40% repeats
High quality, BAC by BAC reference available
Relatively easy to get high quality DNA
Useful model for other cereal genomes
15. Dick McCombie
Patricia MoCombe
Melissa Kramer
Stephanie Muller
Panchu Deshanpe
Michael Schatz
James Gurtowski
Pacific Biosciences
Suzanna Wang
David Rank
Paul Peluso
Cheryl Heiner
Susan McCouch (Cornell)
Namrata (Moni) Singh
Rob Martienssen
Evan Ernst
Greg Hannon
Kaja Wasik