Genome Informatics

Haim
Haim
Zhigui
Zhigui
Ilja
Ilja
Fernando
Fernando
Yueqi
Yueqi
Sebastian
Sebastian
Wenfei
Wenfei

Group Interests

We use both phenotype-first and genotype-first approaches to understand how plants adapt to their environment. The most extensively investigated species remains Arabidopsis thaliana. To enable the rapid discovery of functionally relevant variation, we have spearheaded for almost a decade now, extensive genome sequencing using Illumina technology. The resulting 1001 Genomes Project for A. thaliana has been setting the stage for improved genome-wide association studies, but also revealed a much more fine-grained picture of the evolutionary past of the species. Because few computational tools were available when we started to use short read sequencing, we produced the SHORE pipeline for the analysis of such data. While the early focus was on re-sequencing, we are now focusing on assembling genomes de novo using both short and long-read technologies. This work is complemented by assembling high-quality genomes of related species for pan-genome analyses, as well as studies of spontaneous mutation rates and of epigenomic variation.

  • Intra- and interspecific genome and methylome variation
  • Graph-based methods for comparative sequence analyses
  • Resource and tool development for genomics


Collaboration Partners

References

29.

1,135 Genomes Reveal the Global Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana

1001 Genomes Consortium
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28.

Rapid and Inexpensive Whole-Genome Genotyping-by-Sequencing for Crossover Localization and Fine-Scale Genetic Mapping

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Century-scale methylome stability in a recently diverged Arabidopsis thaliana lineage

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26.

Evolution of DNA methylation patterns in the Brassicaceae is driven by differences in genome organization

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Trowel: a fast and accurate error correction module for Illumina sequencing reads

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24.

Accurate indel prediction using paired-end short reads

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The Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution

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22.

User guide for mapping-by-sequencing in Arabidopsis

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21.

Fast-forward genetics identifies plant CPL phosphatases as regulators of miRNA processing factor HYL1

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20.

Synteny-based mapping-by-sequencing enabled by targeted enrichment

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19.

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18.

Paired-end RAD-seq for de novo assembly and marker design without available reference

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17.

Reference-guided assembly of four diverse Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

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16.

Spontaneous epigenetic variation in the Arabidopsis thaliana methylome

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15.

The Arabidopsis lyrata genome sequence and the basis of rapid genome size change

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14.

Whole-genome sequencing of multiple Arabidopsis thaliana populations

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13.

Identification of a spontaneous frame shift mutation in a nonreference Arabidopsis accession using whole genome sequencing

Laitinen R. A., Schneeberger K., Jelly N. S., Ossowski S. and Weigel D.
Plant Physiol
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12.

The rate and molecular spectrum of spontaneous mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana

Ossowski S., Schneeberger K., Lucas-Lledo J. I., Warthmann N., Clark R. M., Shaw R. G., Weigel D. and Lynch M.
Science
(2010), 327(5961) 92-4.
11.

SHOREmap: simultaneous mapping and mutation identification by deep sequencing

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10.

Simultaneous alignment of short reads against multiple genomes

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9.

Stress-induced changes in the Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome analyzed using whole-genome tiling arrays

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8.

The 1001 genomes project for Arabidopsis thaliana

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7.

At-TAX: a whole genome tiling array resource for developmental expression analysis and transcript identification in Arabidopsis thaliana

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6.

Detecting polymorphic regions in Arabidopsis thaliana with resequencing microarrays

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5.

Sequencing of natural strains of Arabidopsis thaliana with short reads

Ossowski S., Schneeberger K., Clark R. M., Lanz C., Warthmann N. and Weigel D.
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(2008), 18(12) 2024-33.
4.

Transcript normalization and segmentation of tiling array data

Zeller G., Henz S. R., Laubinger S., Weigel D. and Ratsch G.
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3.

Common sequence polymorphisms shaping genetic diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana

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2.

MSQT for choosing SNP assays from multiple DNA alignments

Warthmann N., Fitz J. and Weigel D.
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(2007), 23(20) 2784-7.
1.

A gene expression map of Arabidopsis thaliana development

Schmid M., Davison T. S., Henz S. R., Pape U. J., Demar M., Vingron M., Scholkopf B., Weigel D. and Lohmann J. U.
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