SBI – Department of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Rostock
Ulmenstrasse 69 | 18057 Rostock
Germany
+49 381 498-7571
olaf.wolkenhauer@uni-rostock.de
Julien A. Nguinkal from the Leibniz institute for farm animals will speak about:
The Percidae family is a diverse and economically relevant group of mostly freshwater
fishes that comprises 11 genera and about 266 identified species. Many of these species play
key roles in aquatic ecosystems and provide valuable resources for acquafarming. Pike-perch
(Sander lucioperca, Linnaeus, 1758) is considered as one of the high emerging species for
intensive aquaculture production in Europe, because of its delicate meat, mild taste and diversification
potential. Therefore, considerable efforts are being made to increase and optimize
its industrial production. However, there is a tremendous lack of genomic resources indispensable
to study genetic traits and variations, that are of high relevance in domestication and
adaptation of Sander spp. to aquaculture environments. In particular, there is a need of high
quality assembled and annotated draft genome as reference basis for addressing questions in
Percidae research in general, and specifically, to understand and enhance aquaculture production
and performance traits of Sander. The pike-perch draft reference genome will be an
essential material for investigating and answering specific genomics questions such as:
- Characterization of fitness traits associated with genomic variability in captive animals
- Identification of biomarkers for welfare, health and growth in pike-perch aquaculture
- How can genomic selection be optimized for pike-perch breeding programs
In this presentation, we are outlining approaches that are currently being used to sequence
and annotate Sander lucioperca genome. These include for instance, hybrid de novo assembly
approaches by combining accurate short-read data from Illumina sequencing technology
with the erroneous long-read data produced by third generation technologies like PacBio