Gapless, unambiguous genome sequence for Escherichia coli C, a workhorse of industrial biology.

Authors: Pekar, Jonathan E and Phaneuf, Patrick and Szubin, Richard and Palsson, Bernhard and Feist, Adam and Monk, Jonathan M

Escherichia coli C is a commonly used strain in the bioprocessing indus- try, but despite its utility, the publicly available sequence of the E. coli C genome has gaps and 4,180 ambiguous base calls. Here, we present an updated, high- quality, unambiguous genome sequence with no assembly gaps.

Journal: Microbiology resource announcements
DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00890-18
Year: 2018

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