Abstract
To unlock the genetic potential in crops, multi-genome comparisons are an essential tool. Decreasing costs and improved sequencing technologies have democratized plant genome sequencing and led to a vast increase in the amount of available reference sequences on the one hand and enabled the assembly of even the largest and most complex and repetitive crops genomes such as wheat and barley. These developments have led to the era of pan-genomics in recent years. Pan-genome projects enable the definition of the core and dispensable genome for various crop species as well as the analysis of structural and functional variation and hence offer unprecedented opportunities for exploring and utilizing the genetic basis of natural variation in crops. Comparing, analyzing, and visualizing these multiple reference genomes and their diversity requires powerful and specialized computational strategies and tools.
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Kamal, N. et al. (2022). The Barley and Wheat Pan-Genomes. In: Edwards, D. (eds) Plant Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2443. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2067-0_7
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