Can we have it all? Repurposing target capture for repeat genomics. A commentary on: 'Aiming off the target: recycling target capture sequencing reads for investigating repetitive DNA'

Tony Heitkam; Sònia Garcia

doi:10.1093/aob/mcab080

Can we have it all? Repurposing target capture for repeat genomics. A commentary on: 'Aiming off the target: recycling target capture sequencing reads for investigating repetitive DNA'

Ann Bot. 2021 Nov 9;128(7):iii-v. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcab080.

Authors

Tony Heitkam¹, Sònia Garcia²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Botany, Technische Universität Dresden, D-o1069 Dresden, Germany.
² Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Abstract

This article comments on:

Lucas Costa, André Marques, Chris Buddenhagen, William Wayt Thomas, Bruno Huettel, Veit Schubert, Steven Dodsworth, Andreas Houben, Gustavo Souza and Andrea Pedrosa-Harand, Aiming off the target: recycling target capture sequencing reads for investigating repetitive DNA, Annals of Botany, Volume 128, Issue 7, 2 December 2021, Pages 835–848 https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab063

Keywords: Target capture sequencing; phylogenomics; repetitive DNA.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

DNA*
Genomics*
Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

DNA