The University of Maryland Genome Assembly Group
Developing Methods for Improving Genome Assembly

MaSuRCA assembled a 22Gb pine genome

Plant genomes, including conifer trees, are often very large and repetitive, hence difficult to assemble. The loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) has a genome of 22Gb, the largest genome ever assembled.

The genome group at UMD is part of the Pine Reference Sequence group and MaSuRCA assembled the loblolly pine genome.