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• Quality Reference Assembly And Annotation Of The Rainbow Trout Genome

  USDA-NIFA GRANT12684524 [$500,000] (2019-10-01~2022-09-30)

  Objectives: 1) closing the reference genome assembly by utilizing long-read PacBio sequencing in combination with a previously generated BioNano whole-genome optical map and Dovetail-HiRise map of chromatin interactions. 2) annotate the reference genome for the coding and non-coding transcript-isoforms and alternative splicing, by full-length single-molecule sequencing. 3) annotate the genome for chromatin histone-modifications, chromatin accessibility, by integrating the RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and ChIP-seq data across various tissues.

  Project directors:

  • Mohamed Salem, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Yniv Palti, NCCCWA, USDA
  • Huaijun Zhou, Univeristy of California, Davis
  • Guangtu Gao, NCCCWA, USDA

  Contact: Mohamed (Moh) Salem (mosalem@umd.edu)

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