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Rapid Nanopore Sequencing Finds Disease-Causing Variants in Under 8 Hours

Written by Charlotte Harrison, science writer  Whole-genome sequencing can identify genetic variants that cause disease, but the time needed for […]

Giraffe: A new short-read mapping tool

Researchers have introduced a new short-read mapping tool, called Giraffe, that can efficiently plot new genome sequences to a pangenome […]

World of Genomics: Brazil

In this week’s World of Genomics, we travel to the vibrant country of Brazil – home to the majority of […]

World of Genomics: Japan

In the latest World of Genomics entry, we shine a spotlight on the land of the rising sun – Japan. […]

Down the Rabbit Hole: Crop science and GMOs – Karen Massel

Karen Massel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Crop Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. Massel’s […]

A, C, T to Glossary

Numbers The 1000 Genomes Project: The 1,000 Genome Project (1KGP) launched in January 2008 with the aim of generating the […]

How to do RNA sequencing

RNA sequencing is an NGS technique that enables investigation of the transcriptome – the total cellular content of RNAs, including […]

A complete chromosome 8

Researchers reported the first full assembly of human chromosome 8 in Nature last week. Human chromosomes Despite the completion of […]

140,000 Virus species Identified in the Human Gut, Half of Which are New to Science

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute have identified over 140,000 viral species living in the […]

Genomics week in brief: Week ending 13th February

The latest ‘Genomics week in brief’ filled with the most recent genomics news and research from the past week! Top […]