A large team comprised of researchers from Purdue University, the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, and the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service used whole-genome shotgun sequencing to sequence roughly 85 percent of the 1.1-gigabase soybean, Glycine max, genome. The paper describes how the team integrated the shotgun approach with physical and high-density genetic maps to assemble a chromosome-scale draft sequence. The team predicted 46,430 protein-coding genes, 70 percent more than another polyploid, Arabidposis thaliana.
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