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Assembly and comparison of two closely related Brassica napus genomes. / Bayer, Philippe E; Hurgobin, Bhavna; Golicz, Agnieszka A; Chan, Chon-Kit Kenneth; Yuan, Yuxuan; Lee, HueyTyng; Renton, Michael; Meng, Jinling; Li, Ruiyuan; Long, Yan; Zou, Jun; Bancroft, Ian; Chalhoub, Boulos; King, Graham J.; Batley, Jacqueline; Edwards, David.
In: Plant biotechnology journal, Vol. 15, No. 12, 21.11.2017, p. 1602-1610.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Assembly and comparison of two closely related Brassica napus genomes
AU - Bayer, Philippe E
AU - Hurgobin, Bhavna
AU - Golicz, Agnieszka A
AU - Chan, Chon-Kit Kenneth
AU - Yuan, Yuxuan
AU - Lee, HueyTyng
AU - Renton, Michael
AU - Meng, Jinling
AU - Li, Ruiyuan
AU - Long, Yan
AU - Zou, Jun
AU - Bancroft, Ian
AU - Chalhoub, Boulos
AU - King, Graham J.
AU - Batley, Jacqueline
AU - Edwards, David
N1 - © 2017 The Authors.
PY - 2017/11/21
Y1 - 2017/11/21
N2 - As an increasing number of plant genome sequences become available, it is clear that gene content varies between individuals, and the challenge arises to predict the gene content of a species. However, genome comparison is often confounded by variation in assembly and annotation. Differentiating between true gene absence and variation in assembly or annotation is essential for the accurate identification of conserved and variable genes in a species. Here, we present the de novo assembly of the B. napus cultivar Tapidor and comparison with an improved assembly of the Brassica napus cultivar Darmor-bzh. Both cultivars were annotated using the same method to allow comparison of gene content. We identified genes unique to each cultivar and differentiate these from artefacts due to variation in the assembly and annotation. We demonstrate that using a common annotation pipeline can result in different gene predictions, even for closely related cultivars, and repeat regions which collapse during assembly impact whole genome comparison. After accounting for differences in assembly and annotation, we demonstrate that the genome of Darmor-bzh contains a greater number of genes than the genome of Tapidor. Our results are the first step towards comparison of the true differences between B. napus genomes and highlight the potential sources of error in future production of a B. napus pangenome.
AB - As an increasing number of plant genome sequences become available, it is clear that gene content varies between individuals, and the challenge arises to predict the gene content of a species. However, genome comparison is often confounded by variation in assembly and annotation. Differentiating between true gene absence and variation in assembly or annotation is essential for the accurate identification of conserved and variable genes in a species. Here, we present the de novo assembly of the B. napus cultivar Tapidor and comparison with an improved assembly of the Brassica napus cultivar Darmor-bzh. Both cultivars were annotated using the same method to allow comparison of gene content. We identified genes unique to each cultivar and differentiate these from artefacts due to variation in the assembly and annotation. We demonstrate that using a common annotation pipeline can result in different gene predictions, even for closely related cultivars, and repeat regions which collapse during assembly impact whole genome comparison. After accounting for differences in assembly and annotation, we demonstrate that the genome of Darmor-bzh contains a greater number of genes than the genome of Tapidor. Our results are the first step towards comparison of the true differences between B. napus genomes and highlight the potential sources of error in future production of a B. napus pangenome.
KW - Brassica napus
KW - Tapidor
KW - contigPlacer
KW - genome assembly
KW - genome assembly improvement
KW - genotyping by sequencing
KW - whole genome comparison
KW - Genes, Plant
KW - Molecular Sequence Annotation
KW - Genome, Plant
KW - Brassica napus/genetics
KW - Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
KW - Expressed Sequence Tags
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020740237&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/pbi.12742
DO - 10.1111/pbi.12742
M3 - Article
C2 - 28403535
VL - 15
SP - 1602
EP - 1610
JO - Plant biotechnology journal
JF - Plant biotechnology journal
SN - 1467-7644
IS - 12
ER -