Whole genome detection of sequences of six horses from diverse breeds.

Completed in 2009, the reference genome assembly of the domesticated horse (EquCab 2.0) produced the majority of publically available annotations of genetic variations in this species. Following that effort, a few other projects that focused at variant discovery of a particular breed or two. In this project we aim to identify and annotate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), insertions and deletions (INDELs), copy number variations (CNVs) and structural variations (SVs) in the genomes six horses of diverse genetic background using next generation sequencing.