对于植物等真核生物基因组来说，重复序列， 多倍体，高杂合度等特征在利用二代数据进行组装的时候都会有很大的问题；
利用二代数据组装出来的基因组，大多达不到完成图的水准，通常只是覆盖到编码蛋白的基因区域，还是会有很多的区域覆盖不到，而这些区域正是发挥调控功能的非编码基因区域，近年来，非编码功能的研究越来越多，如果拼接出来的基因组上缺少这部分序列，无法进行后续的研究；
而且由于测序读长的限制和拼接算法的原因，对于重复序列，GC异常区域，会存在组装错误，甚至组装不出来；
三代测序，其长读长和无GC偏好性等特点，降级了基因组组装时的难度，可以组装出在二代数据中很难组装出来的重复序列和GC异常序列，非常适合做基因组的组装；
研究人员利用PacbBio RSII 测序平台对复活草进行测序，使用了32个SMRT cells， 测序深度72X
最终组装出来的结果包含650条contigs, 覆盖度为99%(估计的基因组大小为245Mb, contig的总长度为244Mb),conig的N50长度为2.4M，
同时还组装出来完整的叶绿体基因组，大小为125,324 bp, 其中有大约25kb为重复序列，
分析使用的是HGAP的组装流程，参数如下：
The Oropetium genome was assembled using the
RS_HGAP_Assembly.3 protocol for assembly and Quiver for genome polishing in SMRT Analysis v2.3.012. This consisted of a three-step process involving
(1) generation of preassembled reads with improved consensus accuracy;
(2) assembly of the genome through overlap consensus accuracy using Celera; and
(3) one round of genome polishing with Quiver.
For HGAP, the following parameters were used:
PreAssembler Filter v1 (
minimum sub-read length= 3,000 bp,
minimum polymerase read quality = 0.80,
minimum polymerase read length= 3,000bp
);
PreAssembler v2 (
minimum seed length= 16,000 bp,
numberof seed read chunks= 6,
alignment candidates per chunk= 10,
total alignment candidates= 24,
min coverage for correction= 6
);
AssembleUnitig v1 (
target genome coverage= 30,
overlap error rate= 0.06,
minimum overlap= 40 bp,
overlap k-mer= 14
);
BLASR v1 mapping of reads for genome polishing with Quiver (
max divergence percentage= 30,
minimum anchor size= 12).
A second round of genome polishing was performed using Quiver (SMRT Analysis v2.3.0) to
further improve the site-specific consensus accuracy of the assembly.
The following Quiver parameters were used for genome polishing:
filtering (
minimum sub-read length= 3,000 bp,
minimum polymerase read quality= 0.80,
minimum polymerase read length= 3,000 bp);
mapping (
maximum divergence percentage= 30,
minimum anchor size= 12).
Default parameters were otherwise employed for both HGAP assembly and Quiver protocols