Construction of a new chromosome-scale, long-read reference genome assembly for the Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus.

Ronald Alan Harris Muthuswamy Raveendran Dustin T Lyfoung Fritz J Sedlazeck Medhat Mahmoud Trent M Prall Julie A Karl Harsha Vardhan Doddapaneni Qingchang Meng Yi Han Donna M Muzny Roger W Wiseman David H O'Connor Jeffrey Rogers

Published in: GigaScience (2022)

Access to a more complete reference genome with improved accuracy and continuity will facilitate more detailed, comprehensive, and meaningful research results for a wide variety of future studies using Syrian hamsters as models.

Keyphrases

genome wide
current status
single molecule
copy number
case control