Written by Charlotte Harrison, science writer Whole-genome sequencing can identify genetic variants that cause disease, but the time needed for […]
Researchers have introduced a new short-read mapping tool, called Giraffe, that can efficiently plot new genome sequences to a pangenome […]
In this week’s World of Genomics, we travel to the vibrant country of Brazil – home to the majority of […]
In the latest World of Genomics entry, we shine a spotlight on the land of the rising sun – Japan. […]
Karen Massel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Crop Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. Massel’s […]
Numbers The 1000 Genomes Project: The 1,000 Genome Project (1KGP) launched in January 2008 with the aim of generating the […]
RNA sequencing is an NGS technique that enables investigation of the transcriptome – the total cellular content of RNAs, including […]
Researchers reported the first full assembly of human chromosome 8 in Nature last week. Human chromosomes Despite the completion of […]
Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute have identified over 140,000 viral species living in the […]
The latest ‘Genomics week in brief’ filled with the most recent genomics news and research from the past week! Top […]