Technical advances in reading long DNA sequences have ramifications in understanding primate evolution and human disease.
Biotechnology
Mar 31, 2016
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Leading on from The Genome Analysis Centre's (TGAC) previous announcement of their new bread wheat genome assembly, the landmark resource is now publically available to download at the European Bioinformatics Institute's ...
Biotechnology
Jan 8, 2016
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The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) announced today the production of a whole genome assembly of bread wheat, the most widely grown cereal in the world, significantly accelerating global research ...
Biotechnology
Jan 6, 2016
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Genomes are like the biological owner's manual for all living things. Cells read DNA instantaneously, getting instructions necessary for an organism to grow, function and reproduce. But for humans, deciphering this "book ...
Biotechnology
Jul 1, 2015
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Researchers from BGI reported the most complete haploid-resolved diploid genome (HDG) sequence based on de novo assembly with NGS technology and the pipeline developed lays the foundation for de novo assembly of genomes with ...
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May 25, 2015
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A repository of genome assemblers is being developed to automate the process of selecting the best assembler for the task at hand.
Biotechnology
Oct 20, 2014
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The Glanville fritillary has long been an internationally known model species for ecology and evolutionary biology, whose population biology has been studied on the Åland Islands for more than twenty years. Now the species ...
Biotechnology
Sep 5, 2014
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The high-quality genome sequence of the tiny single-celled alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has proved useful for researchers studying photosynthesis and cell motility.
Biotechnology
Jul 22, 2014
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To reconstruct phylogenetic trees from next-generation sequencing data using traditional methods requires a time-consuming combination of bioinformatic procedures including genome assembly, gene prediction, orthology identification ...
Biotechnology
Mar 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The genome of the hot pepper, the world's most widely grown spice crop, has been sequenced by a large international team of researchers, including scientists at the University of California, Davis.
Biotechnology
Jan 22, 2014
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