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Dog10K_Boxer_Tasha_1.0: a long-read assembly of the dog reference genome


The domestic dog has evolved to be an important biomedical model for studies regarding the genetic basis of disease, morphology and behavior. Genetic studies in the dog have relied on a draft reference genome of a purebred female boxer dog named “Tasha” initially published in 2005. Derived from a Sanger whole genome shotgun sequencing approach coupled with limited clone-based sequencing, the initial assembly and subsequent updates have served as the predominant resource for canine genetics for 15 years.

While the initial assembly produced a good quality draft, as with all assemblies produced at the time it contained gaps, assembly errors and missing sequences, particularly in GC-rich regions, which are found at many promoters and in the first exons of protein coding genes. Here we present Dog10K_Boxer_Tasha_1.0, an improved chromosome-level highly contiguous genome assembly of Tasha created with long-read technologies, that increases sequence contiguity >100-fold, closes >23,000 gaps of the Canfam3.1 reference assembly and improves gene annotation by identifying >1200 new protein-coding transcripts. The assembly and annotation are available at NCBI under the accession GCF_000002285.5.

Authors: Vidhya Jagannathan, Christophe Hitte, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Patrick Masterson, Terence D. Murphy, Sarah Emery, Brian Davis, Reuben M. Buckley, Yanhu Liu, Xiangquan Zhang, Tosso Leeb, Ya-ping Zhang, Elaine A. Ostrander, Guo-dong Wang

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