GENOME

The genome group at the University of Maryland is part of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. We are an interdisciplinary team, developing techniques for higher quality genomes... Our 24Gb genome of Loblolly Pine is the largest genome ever assembled. Currently we are assembling a 30 Gb sugar pine genome... A super-read is an extension of a sequencing read. Replacing reads by super-reads will improve many kinds of assemblies. While our assembler MaSuRCA uses super-reads, many other applications of super-reads are possible. Our software "masurca-superreads", part of the MaSuRCA distribution, converts Illumina paired-end reads into super-reads.

Primary location: College Park United States