Whole-genome sequencing and comparative genomics reveal candidate genes associated with quality traits in Dioscorea alata.

"availability of data and materials the illumina hiseq 3000 sequencing raw data and transcriptome data are available in the ncbi sra (sequence read archive) under the bioproject number: prjna918625. the orthology analysis resulted in a total of 58916 og from 1706645 proteins (supplemental data 1 ).; for most of the og found in the three pathways all or most of the 45 species had gene copies (supplemental data 1 ).; in addition based on the orthology analysis we found gene structure errors such as for og0082990 and og0083049 (supplemental data 1 ) which calls for manual curation of important gene families to further improve the functional annotation of d alata genome. availability of data and materials the illumina hiseq 3000 sequencing raw data and transcriptome data are available in the ncbi sra (sequence read archive) under the bioproject number: prjna918625"

"code availability all the custom codes and scripts used in this study are publicy available on github https://www github com/azotta/yamgenomics ."

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"Funding We acknowledge the support from Breeding RTB Products for End User Preferences (RTBfoods) Project (Grant OPP1178942) through funds received from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The production of the genomic resources was supported by a fund from the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (CRP-RTB)."