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Construction of a new chromosome-scale, long-read reference genome assembly for the Syrian hamster, <i>Mesocricetus auratus</i>
2021-07-05
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<h4>Background</h4> The Syrian hamster ( Mesocricetus auratus ) has been suggested as a useful mammalian model for a variety of diseases and infections, including infection with respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. The MesAur1.0 genome assembly was generated in 2013 using whole-genome shotgun sequencing with short-read sequence data. Current more advanced sequencing technologies and assembly methods now permi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2d411073-a9b1-5a4e-90ac-bbbf50bc4bc4
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.07.05.451071
