A Draft Genome Assembly for Gilloy

Tinospora cordifolia, also known as Gilloy, is a plant with several therapeutic properties such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic etc. This plant gained tremendous therapeutic prominence during Covid-19. However, despite its popularity, its genome assembly is not available. A team of researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India have used genome sequencing technology (10× Genomics linked read and Nanopore long-read technologies), and various other tools including Kallisto, a program for quantifying abundances of transcripts from RNA-Seq data, to create a draft genome assembly. Details can be found at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53176-z