Rationale:
Large indel polymorphisms are important for crop improvement, but identifying large indels is challenging.
A pan-genome is essential to comprehensively catalog large indels.
Utilizing a pan-genome requires specialized bioinformatics skills.
BRIDGEcereal provides a user-friendly interface to efficiently identify large indels from pan-genomes of major cereal crops, accelerating gene discovery for important traits.
Approach:
BRIDGEcereal webapp is built based on two novel unsupervised machine learning algorithms:
CHOICE and CLIPS.