ATCC launched its new ATCC Genome Portal, a publicly available database of reference-quality genome sequences matched to authenticated ATCC biological materials that will help researchers interpret and reproduce their results with confidence. The portal, which launched with an initial 250 genome sequences of widely used bacterial strains, delivers on ATCC’s Enhanced Authentication Initiative, a component of the first of five core pledges under the Incredible 2020 Initiative aimed at increasing reproducibility in biological research.
Current publicly available genomic sequences lack authenticity, quality, completeness, or traceability, which can compromise results. This problem is exacerbated by the absence of standardized methods for developing and validating reference-quality genome sequences.
ATCC addressed this issue by developing a standardized workflow for generating reference-quality genomes. Starting with low-passaged, authenticated ATCC materials and using a standardized next-generation sequencing and hybrid assembly approach, ATCC produced complete reference-quality genomes by combining highly accurate short reads with the scaffolding ability ...
