An improved de novo genome assembly of the common marmoset genome yields improved contiguity and increased mapping rates of sequence data

Background The common marmoset ( Callithrix jacchus ) is one of the most studied primate model organisms. However, the marmoset genomes available in the public databases are highly fragmented and filled with sequence gaps, hindering research advances related to marmoset genomics and transcriptomics. Results Here we utilize single-molecule, long-read sequence data to improve and update the existing genome assembly and report a near-complete...