Whole genome sequencing and assembly of Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomes using Oxford Nanopore data

Andrew G. Matveenko1, Anton B. Matiiv2, Yury A. Barbitoff3, Evgenia M. Maksiutenko4, Svetlana E. Moskalenko5, Alexandra V. Beliavskaia6, Alexander V. Predeus7, Galina A. Zhouravleva81Dpt. of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, a.matveenko@spbu.ru2Dpt. of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, antonmatiiv@yandex.ru3Dpt. of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Bioinformatics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, barbitoff@bk.ru4Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, St. Petersburg Branch, St. Petersburg, Russia; Dpt. of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, jmrose@yandex.ru5Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, St. Petersburg Branch, St. Petersburg, Russia; Dpt. of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, s.moskalenko@spbu.ru6University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, alex.beliavskaia@gmail.com7University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Bioinformatics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, predeus@bioinf.me8Dpt. of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, g.zhuravleva@spbu.ru The Peterhof genetic collection (PGC) of yeastВ SaccharomycesВ cerevisiae is one of the rareВ examplesВ of a large genetic collection established independently of reference S288C strain. We assembled genomes of two widely used PGC strains, 1A-D1628 and 74-D694, using Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencing data. Subsequent analysis of structural variations showed a number of differences between PGC strains and S288C.

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