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uips the P. monodon industry with the ability to simultaneously assign parentage of communally reared animals, undertake genomic relationship analysis, manage mate pairings between cryptic family lines, as well as undertake advance studies of genome and trait architecture. Critically this assay can be cost effectively applied as P. monodon breeding programs transition to undertaking genomic selection.

Polar bears are uniquely adapted to an Arctic existence. Since their relatively recent divergence from their closest living relative, brown bears, less than 500,000 years ago, the species has evolved an array of novel traits suited to its Arctic lifestyle. Previous studies sought to uncover the genomic underpinnings of these unique characteristics, and disclosed the genes showing the strongest signal of positive selection in the polar bear lineage. Here, we survey a comprehensive dataset of 109 polar bear and 33 brown bear genomes to investigate the genomic variants within these top genes present in each species. Specifically, we investigate whether fixed homozygous variants in polar bears derived from selection on standing variation in the ancestral gene pool or on de novo mutation in the polar bear lineage.

We find that a large number of sites fixed in polar bears are biallelic in brown bears, suggesting selection on standing variation. Moreover, we uncover sites in which polar bears are fixed for a derived allele while brown bears are fixed for the ancestral allele, which we suggest may be a signal of de novo mutation in the polar bear lineage.

Our findings suggest that, among other mechanisms, natural selection acting on changes in genes derived from a combination of variation already in the ancestral gene pool, and from de novo missense mutations in the polar bear lineage, may have enabled the rapid adaptation of polar bears to their new Arctic environment.

Our findings suggest that, among other mechanisms, natural selection acting on changes in genes derived from a combination of variation already in the ancestral gene pool, and from de novo missense mutations in the polar bear lineage, may have enabled the rapid adaptation of polar bears to their new Arctic environment.

The eutherian fibroblast growth factors were implicated as key regulators in developmental processes. However, there were major disagreements in descriptions of comprehensive eutherian fibroblast growth factors gene data sets including either 18 or 22 homologues. The present analysis attempted to revise and update comprehensive eutherian fibroblast growth factor gene data sets, and address and resolve major discrepancies in their descriptions using eutherian comparative genomic analysis protocol and 35 public eutherian reference genomic sequence data sets.

Among 577 potential coding sequences, the tests of reliability of eutherian public genomic sequences annotated most comprehensive curated eutherian third-party data gene data set of fibroblast growth factor genes including 267 complete coding sequences. The present study first described 8 superclusters including 22 eutherian fibroblast growth factor major gene clusters, proposing their updated classification and nomenclature.

The integrated gene annotations, phylogenetic analysis and protein molecular evolution analysis argued that comprehensive eutherian fibroblast growth factor gene data set classifications included 22 rather than 18 homologues.

The integrated gene annotations, phylogenetic analysis and protein molecular evolution analysis argued that comprehensive eutherian fibroblast growth factor gene data set classifications included 22 rather than 18 homologues.

Nanopore sequencing enables portable, real-time sequencing applications, including point-of-care diagnostics and in-the-field genotyping. Achieving these outcomes requires efficient bioinformatic algorithms for the analysis of raw nanopore signal data. However, comparing raw nanopore signals to a biological reference sequence is a computationally complex task. The dynamic programming algorithm called Adaptive Banded Event Alignment (ABEA) is a crucial step in polishing sequencing data and identifying non-standard nucleotides, such as measuring DNA methylation. Here, we parallelise and optimise an implementation of the ABEA algorithm (termed f5c) to efficiently run on heterogeneous CPU-GPU architectures.

By optimising memory, computations and load balancing between CPU and GPU, we demonstrate how f5c can perform ∼3-5 × faster than an optimised version of the original CPU-only implementation of ABEA in the Nanopolish software package. We also show that f5c enables DNA methylation detection on-the-fly using an embedded System on Chip (SoC) equipped with GPUs.

Our work not only demonstrates that complex genomics analyses can be performed on lightweight computing systems, but also benefits High-Performance Computing (HPC). The associated source code for f5c along with GPU optimised ABEA is available at https//github.com/hasindu2008/f5c .

Our work not only demonstrates that complex genomics analyses can be performed on lightweight computing systems, but also benefits High-Performance Computing (HPC). The associated source code for f5c along with GPU optimised ABEA is available at https//github.com/hasindu2008/f5c .

Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequent causes of death among cancer patients. Hypermutated CRC is an extraordinary case of cancer, but curable if detected at early stages. ABT-199 However, the mechanism for developing a hypermutated CRC remains unclear. An association between RAD54L germline mutation and POLE exonuclease domain hypermutated cancer has not been reported before.

We present a rare case of a 41-year-old Chinese female with a right-sided colon adenocarcinoma who harboured a (p.P286R) POLE somatic mutation. Genomic analysis was performed using the Illumina HiSeq Sequencing platform, which, identified MSS tumour with a (c.1093_1169 + 15dup) germline mutation in RAD54L gene and tumour mutation burden of 377.0 Muts/Mb. Based on our report a new mechanism for developing hypermutated colon cancer has been conjectured through a novel RAD54L_POLE DSBR pathway.

This report highlights the clinical importance of next-generation sequencing technology in diagnosing rare tumours and investigating novel mechanisms for developing exceptional genetic diseases.