A Sanger/pyrosequencing hybrid approach for the generation of high-quality draft assemblies of marine microbial genomes

Susanne M D Goldberg*, Justin Johnson, Dana Busam, Tamara Feldblyum, Steve Ferriera, Robert Friedman, Aaron Halpern, Hoda Khouri, Saul A. Kravitz, Federico M. Lauro, Kelvin Li, Yu Hui Rogers, Robert Strausberg, Granger Sutton, Luke Tallon, Torsten Thomas, Eli Venter, Marvin Frazier, J. Craig Venter

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Abstract

Since its introduction a decade ago, whole-genome shotgun sequencing (WGS) has been the main approach for producing cost-effective and high-quality genome sequence data. Until now, the Sanger sequencing technology that has served as a platform for WGS has not been truly challenged by emerging technologies. The recent introduction of the pyrosequencing-based 454 sequencing platform (454 Life Sciences, Branford, CT) offers a very promising sequencing technology alternative for incorporation in WGS. In this study, we evaluated the utility and cost-effectiveness of a hybrid sequencing approach using 3730xl Sanger data and 454 data to generate higher-quality lower-cost assemblies of microbial genomes compared to current Sanger sequencing strategies alone.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11240-11245
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume103
Issue number30
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2006
Externally publishedYes

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