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This work was supported by the Ministry of Agriculture of China (2016ZX08009-003), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ZDRWZS-2019-2) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31788103). We thank Ms. Anita K. Snyder for revising the manuscript.
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Liu, Y., Tian, Z. From one linear genome to a graph-based pan-genome: a new era for genomics. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 1938–1941 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1808-0
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