Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...

New cost-effective genome assembly process Date: May 5, 2013 Source: DOE/Joint Genome Institute Summary: Genome assembly, the molecular equivalent of trying to put together a multi-million piece ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to ...

It has been three years since University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), researchers proved that long-read human genome assembly can be done, using a nanopore-based technology developed on campus.

This great genome assembly of Merremia boisiana uncovers the genetic engine behind one of the world's fastest-growing tropical vines.Its remarkable growth and resilience are underpinned by hormone ...

A team of researchers from Denmark, Malaysia, France and the U.K. has conducted a genome assembly of the donkey to learn more about its evolutionary history. In their paper published on the open ...

In whole-genome assembly, the BAC fragments (red line segments) and the reads from five individuals (black line segments) are combined to produce a contig and a consensus sequence (green line).

The joke about the Human Genome Project is how many times it’s been finished, but not actually. The first time was in 2000, when Bill Clinton announced the “first survey of the entire human ...