Fig. 1.

Milestones in genome assembly. Timeline illustrating many of the major genome assembly achievements ranging from the beginning of the sequencing era to the large-scale genome projects currently ongoing. Each genome or genome project (GP) is placed under a color-coded background according to the sequencing approach adopted. Light red: early sequencing methods, Yellow: Sanger-based shotgun sequencing, Green: NGS, Light blue: TGS. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)