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Identification <strong>of</strong> putative odorant receptors from Epiphyas postvittana 81<br />
total DNA sample. Two broad approaches have been taken to sequence genomes, a<br />
shotgun approach or a clone-by-clone approach.<br />
In the shotgun approach, the genomic DNA <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>terest is fragmented, then size<br />
selected for library construction (Green, 1997; Weber and Myers, 1997). The ends <strong>of</strong><br />
the DNA are end repaired followed by selection <strong>of</strong> fragments <strong>of</strong> a certa<strong>in</strong> size class<br />
which are cloned <strong>in</strong>to plasmid vectors and sequenced. The <strong>in</strong>serts, depend<strong>in</strong>g on the<br />
plasmid used can range anywhere from 2 kb to 200 kb. In the clone-by-clone<br />
approach, large overlapp<strong>in</strong>g clones (<strong>in</strong>sert size greater than 50 kb) that cover the<br />
whole genome are constructed usually with Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs)<br />
(Olson et al., 1989; Kim et al., 1996). These BACs or libraries are then <strong>in</strong>dividually<br />
fragmented and sequenced by shotgun clon<strong>in</strong>g, after which each BAC is assembled<br />
locally. The <strong>in</strong>dividual BACs are then assembled to get the genome sequence <strong>of</strong> the<br />
organism. This is helpful when assembl<strong>in</strong>g large eukaryotic genomes with repeats<br />
with limited computational power.<br />
4.1.3 Recent progress <strong>in</strong> sequenc<strong>in</strong>g field<br />
A turn<strong>in</strong>g po<strong>in</strong>t <strong>in</strong> the sequenc<strong>in</strong>g field came from the development <strong>of</strong> low-cost high-<br />
throughput sequenc<strong>in</strong>g mach<strong>in</strong>es. Several sequenc<strong>in</strong>g platforms are now available for<br />
generat<strong>in</strong>g millions <strong>of</strong> bases at a fraction <strong>of</strong> the price <strong>of</strong> traditional Sanger sequenc<strong>in</strong>g<br />
methods, although the low cost is <strong>of</strong>fset by the generation <strong>of</strong> only short read lengths, a<br />
limitation <strong>of</strong> new sequenc<strong>in</strong>g technologies. Intense computer power is required for the<br />
correct assembly <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> short reads, yet another limitation <strong>of</strong> new sequenc<strong>in</strong>g<br />
technologies. Of the available sequenc<strong>in</strong>g platforms <strong>of</strong> Roche 454 (Ronaghi et al.,<br />
1996; Dressman et al., 2003; Margulies, 2005), Illum<strong>in</strong>a Genome Analyzer (Adessi,<br />
2000; Fedurco et al., 2006; Turcatti et al., 2008), ABI/Solid (Shendure, 2005;<br />
McKernan et al., 2006) and Helicos (Braslavsky et al., 2003; Harris, 2008) the first<br />
two platforms have been used for sequenc<strong>in</strong>g the E. postvittana antennal<br />
transcriptome and genome respectively, and will be discussed further.