Rapid Nanopore Sequencing of 100 Tomato Genomes Enables Structural Variant Analysis

Jan 16, 2019

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SAN DIEGO (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and elsewhere are in the process of sequencing 100 tomato varieties in 100 days with the Oxford Nanopore PromethIon platform, according to presentations here yesterday at the Plant and Animal Genomes conference.

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