posted on 2019-04-17, 17:54authored byVishal Kumar Sarsani, Narayanan Raghupathy, Ian T. Fiddes, Joel Armstrong, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Oraya Zinder, Mohan Bolisetty, Kerstin Howe, Doug Hinerfeld, Xiaoan Ruan, Lucy Rowe, Mary Barter, Guruprasad Ananda, Benedict Paten, George M Weinstock, Gary A. Churchill, Michael V. Wiles, Valerie A. Schneider, Anuj Srivastava, Laura G. Reinholdt
The genome of the laboratory mouse C57BL/6J Eve was assembled de novo from high coverage long read sequencing and optical mapping technologies. To provide an update to the laboratory mouse reference genome, this assembled genome was used to close gaps and to identify false positive variant calls that are likely due to technical artifacts.
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The Genome of C57BL/6J “Eve”, the Mother of the Laboratory Mouse Genome Reference Strain