the biosynthesis of diterpene resin acids, important in conifer defence against insects and fungus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pine_beetle 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin
identified in sitka spruce ✤ Full-length transcript sequences available ✤ Use these sequences to identify orthologs in white spruce (Picea glauca) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_sitchensis Katrin Geisler 5
data usingTrinity (Grabherr et al. 2011) (assembled by Mack Yuen) ✤ Identify the white spruce CYP720B transcripts by aligning the sitka spruce transcripts to the white spruce RNA-seq contigs using BWA-SW (Li and Durbin 2010) ✤ Cluster the sitka spruce and white spruce transcripts using CLC Genomics Workbench 7
genome sequence using ABySS (Simpson et al. 2009) ✤ Assembled 8.4 billion reads using 996 processors on 83 machines with an aggregate 4 TB of RAM ✤ Assembled 18 Gbp in 5 million scaffolds larger than 500 bp with a scaffold N50 of 6 kbp 9
aligning the sitka spruce and white spruce transcripts to the white spruce genome assembly using BWA-SW ✤ Align the sitka spruce and white spruce transcripts to the CYP720B genome contigs using gmap (Wu and Watanabe 2005) 10