The paper reports the de novo assembly and annotation of the soybean cultivar Hwangkeum, revealing genetic variants and structural features compared to the Williams 82 reference genome.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Jul 30, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics

Purging of deleterious mutations during domestication in the predominant selfing crop soybean

Myung‐Shin Kim, Roberto Daniel Lozano, Ji Hong Kim, Dong Nyuk Bae, Sang‐Tae Kim, Jung‐Ho Park, Man Soo Choi, Jae‐Hyun Kim, Hyun-Choong Ok, Soo-Kwon Park, Michael A. Gore, Jung‐Kyung Moon, Soon‐Chun Jeong

The paper presents a genome-wide variation map of soybean accessions to study domestication-related mutations and finds a reduction in deleterious alleles in domesticated soybean.

Nature Communications · Jan 4, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics

Genome resequencing, improvement of variant calling, and population genomic analyses provide insights into the seedlessness in the genus Vitis

Myung‐Shin Kim, Youn Young Hur, Ji Hong Kim, Soon‐Chun Jeong

This study improves variant calling in grape genomes and identifies genetic factors contributing to seedlessness, including a major dominant gene and minor recessive loci.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Jul 22, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics

TGFam-Finder: An optimal solution for target-gene family annotation in eukaryotic genomes

Seungill Kim, Kyeongchae Cheong, Jieun Park, Myung‐Shin Kim, Jihyun Kim, Min‐Ki Seo, Sun-Ho Kwon, Yong‐Min Kim, Namjin Koo, Kwangsoo Kim, Nuri Oh, Ki‐Tae Kim, Jongbum Jeon, Hyunbin Kim, Yoonyoung Lee, , Doil Choi

TGFam-Finder re-annotates eukaryotic genomes to identify previously missed protein-coding genes, improving gene family annotation accuracy across multiple species.

bioRxiv · Jul 19, 2018 · PreprintBioinformatics