Assessing the gene space in draft genomes |
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Authors: | Genis Parra Keith Bradnam Zemin Ning Thomas Keane Ian Korf |
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Institution: | 1.UC Davis Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA and 2.The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK |
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Abstract: | Genome sequencing projects have been initiated for a wide range of eukaryotes. A few projects have reached completion, but most exist as draft assemblies. As one of the main reasons to sequence a genome is to obtain its catalog of genes, an important question is how complete or completable the catalog is in unfinished genomes. To answer this question, we have identified a set of core eukaryotic genes (CEGs), that are extremely highly conserved and which we believe are present in low copy numbers in higher eukaryotes. From an analysis of a phylogenetically diverse set of eukaryotic genome assemblies, we found that the proportion of CEGs mapped in draft genomes provides a useful metric for describing the gene space, and complements the commonly used N50 length and x-fold coverage values. |
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