High-molecular-weight DNA was isolated from frozen cell pellets using a Qiagen MagAttract HMW DNA kit and sheared using a Diagenode
Megaruptor I to 20 kb mode size. At all steps, DNA quantity was checked on a
Qubit Fluorometer I with a
dsDNA HS Assay kit (Thermo Fisher), and sizes were examined on a
FEMTO Pulse (Agilent Technologies) using a Genomic DNA 165 kb kit. SMRTbell libraries were prepared for sequencing according to the protocol ‘Procedure & Checklist—Preparing HiFi SMRTbell Libraries using the SMRTbell Express Template Prep Kit 2.0’. After SMRTbell generation, material was size-selected on a
SageELF system (Sage Science) using the ‘0.75% 1-18 kb’ program (target 3,450 bp in well 12), and some combinations of fraction 3 (average size of 15–21 kb), fraction 2 (average size of 16–27 kb) and fraction 1 (average size of 20–31 kb) were selected for sequencing, depending on the empirical size measurements and available mass. The selected library fractions were bound with Sequencing Primer v.2 and Sequel II Polymerase v.2.0 and sequenced on Sequel II instruments (PacBio) on SMRT Cells 8M using Sequencing Plate v.2.0, diffusion loading, 2 h of pre-extension and 30 h of movie times. Samples were sequenced to a minimum HiFi data amount of 108.5 Gbp (35× estimated genome coverage) on four SMRT Cells.
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