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Meeting report

Strategies towards sequencing complex crop genomes

James C Abbott* and Sarah A Butcher

Author Affiliations

Centre for Investigative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

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Genome Biology 2012, 13:322 doi:10.1186/gb-2012-13-11-322

Published: 19 November 2012

Abstract

A report on the Strategies for de novo assemblies of complex crop genomes workshop held at The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK, 8-10 October 2012.

Keywords:
de novo assembly; crop genome; polyploidy; repetitive DNA; next-generation sequencing