Zhichao Yu

The paper develops a pan-gene catalogue for Asian cultivated rice by creating a reference panel of 16 cultivars and identifying core and cultivar-specific genes.

The paper presents an HPC-based workflow for genome variant calling using GATK, demonstrating SNP detection in four plant species and identifying novel SNPs in rice.

The paper introduces RGI, a pan-genome database for Asian rice, integrating 16 reference genomes and transcriptome data to provide gene information and visualization tools.

The paper constructs a pan-genome inversion index for Asian rice using 16 genomes and finds a high inversion rate with functional implications.