The NAM parents sequencing projectNAM Consortium website: https://nam-genomes.github.io/
Currently, many or most forms of sequence analyses are referenced to the single
B73 inbred. Beyond B73, some of the most extensively researched maize lines are
the core set of 25 inbreds known as the NAM founder lines, which represent a broad
cross-section of modern maize diversity. Prior data show that gene content can
differ by more than 5% across lines and that as much as half of the functional
genetic information lies outside of genes in highly variable intergenic spaces.
To capture and utilize this variation, B73 and the NAM founder inbreds have been sequenced
and assembled by the NAM Consortium using PacBio long reads a mate-pair strategy.
Scaffolds were validated by BioNano optical mapping, and ordered and oriented
using linkage and pan-genome marker data. RNA-seq data from multiple tissues were
used to annotate each genome using a pipeline that includes BRAKER, Mikado, and
PASA. These data will help the maize community assess the role of structural
variation such as presence-absence variation and copy number variation in the
determination of agronomic traits.
The publication is available here: Data hosted at MaizeGDB:
Additional data is available here. B73 v5 assembly and stock
All NAM founder assemblies and stock:
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