Chromosome-level genome assembly of the wild Chinese yam Dioscorea opposita
Tiegang Yang, Huijun Wang, Peng Wang, Yulong Zhao, Xiangyang Li, Guixia Shi, Tiejun Guo, Jie Tang, Guixiao La · 2026
Read Chromosome-level genome assembly of the wild Chinese yam Dioscorea opposita by Tiegang Yang, Huijun Wang, Peng Wang, Yulong Zhao, Xiangyang Li, Guixia Shi, Tiejun Guo, Jie Tang, Guixiao La (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13347054.txt.
Description
Tiegang Yang and co-authors read the full gene code of a wild Chinese yam in a 2026 paper. The vine serves as both food and folk drug across East Asia. The team joined three read methods to build a code map sorted to the level of whole strands.
Most of the code, near half a billion letters, sits on twenty large strands. The map holds near twenty-five thousand genes, most with known jobs, plus vast repeat runs. Proofs of full scope check out well, and the team flags the map as a base for breed work and wild stock care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tiegang Yang, Huijun Wang, Peng Wang, Yulong Zhao, Xiangyang Li, Guixia Shi, Tiejun Guo, Jie Tang, Guixiao La |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |