1 The Draft Genome of Tropical Fruit Durian (Durio zibethinus) 2 1,2,3,4,5,6# 2,7 2,7 3 3 Bin Tean Teh , Kevin Lim *, Chern Han Yong *, Cedric Chuan Young Ng *, Sushma Ramesh 8,14,15,16 3 2,4, 7 9 10 4 Rao , Vikneswari Rajasegaran , Weng Khong Lim , Choon Kiat Ong , Ki Chan , Vincent Kin 11 12 8,14,15,16,17 2,4,7 13 5 Yuen Cheng , Poh Sheng Soh , Sanjay Swarup , Steven G Rozen , Niranjan Nagarajan , 1,2,4,5,13# 6 Patrick Tan 7 8 1 9 Thorn Biosystems Pte Ltd, Singapore 2 10 Program in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 3 11 Laboratory of Cancer Epigenome, Division of Medical Science, National Cancer Centre, Singapore 4 12 SingHealth/Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine, National Heart Centre, Singapore 5 13 Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore 6 14 Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Singapore 7 15 Centre for Computational Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 8 16 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 9 17 Lymphoma Genomic Translational Research Laboratory, National Cancer Centre, Singapore 10 18 Global Databank, Singapore 11 19 Verdant Foundation, Hong Kong 12 20 Samsoney Group, Malaysia 13 21 Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 14 22 Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 23 Singapore 15 24 Metabolites Biology Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore 16 25 NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation, Life Sciences Institute, National 26 University of Singapore, Singapore 17 27 NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 28 29 30 * Denotes equal contribution 31 32 # Address correspondence:
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[email protected] 33 (P.T.) 34 2 35 Abstract 36 Durian (Durio zibethinus) is a South East Asian tropical plant species, well-known for its hefty spine- 37 covered fruit and notorious sulfury and onion-like odor.