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Using optical mapping data for the improvement of vertebrate genome assemblies

Overview of attention for article published in Giga Science, March 2015
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Title
Using optical mapping data for the improvement of vertebrate genome assemblies
Published in
Giga Science, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13742-015-0052-y
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Authors

Kerstin Howe, Jonathan MD Wood

Abstract

Optical mapping is a technology that gathers long-range information on genome sequences similar to ordered restriction digest maps. Because it is not subject to cloning, amplification, hybridisation or sequencing bias, it is ideally suited to the improvement of fragmented genome assemblies that can no longer be improved by classical methods. In addition, its low cost and rapid turnaround make it equally useful during the scaffolding process of de novo assembly from high throughput sequencing reads. We describe how optical mapping has been used in practice to produce high quality vertebrate genome assemblies. In particular, we detail the efforts undertaken by the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC), which maintains the reference genomes for human, mouse, zebrafish and chicken, and uses different optical mapping platforms for genome curation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 3 2%
United States 3 2%
Norway 2 2%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 109 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 30%
Researcher 29 24%
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Student > Master 9 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 7%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 11 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 61 50%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 23%
Computer Science 7 6%
Chemistry 5 4%
Physics and Astronomy 3 2%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 13 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 January 2016.
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#1,632,208
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Giga Science
#294
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Outputs of similar age
#21,674
of 291,321 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Giga Science
#5
of 17 outputs
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