Benchmarking gene set of gymnosperms for assessing genome and annotation completeness in BUSCO

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Key Technology Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province (No. 2023C03138) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32071484). The authors thank Mr. Zhen Zhang of Sichuan University for his helpful discussion.

Author contributions

Y.-P.Z. and J.C. conceived the study; J.-J.W., Y.W.-H., and C.-F.L. analyzed the data. The manuscript was drafted by J.-J.W. and revised by Y.-P.Z., W.Y.-H., and J.C.

Data availability

Benchmarking gene set of gymnosperms is available at https://github.com/jjwujay/Gymnosperm_odb10. All relevant data can be found at https://github.com/jjwujay/Gymnosperm_odb10_supplyinfo, including the reference, information, and completeness of 11 chromosome-level gymnosperm genomes and 204 gymnosperm transcriptomes, expected missing values of different levels of depletion, details of transcript assembly and phylogenetic tree construction, and codes.

Conflict of interest

None declared.

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