The latest genome to be completed is the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber). Now, could there be a cooler (if ugly) mammal on the planet? It’s one of only two truly eusocial mammals in the world, it lives up to 28 long years (my daughter’s rat, no relation, lived only 3 years) and is surprisingly [...]
Illumina announces that they are slicing their price of whole-genome sequence to 19,500 . This is half what they were charging before. Hey, you can get it at 14,5000 per genome if you do it in bulk, 5 or more people. Perhaps you and your family for a cool 72,500? As I mentioned before, the [...]
I’ve been perusing the latest supplement of Nature Methods on “Visualizing Biological Data” (and will blog about it sometime this week, interesting stuff), when I came across a reference to SEQanswers, an online discussion group for the Next Generation Sequencing community. It seems to be a quite well used discussion group, with lots of interesting [...]
via The Long Now and the projects new publication in the Journal of Heredity, the Genome 10K project aims: to assemble a genomic zoo—a collection of DNA sequences representing the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species, approximately one for every vertebrate genus. The trajectory of cost reduction in DNA sequencing suggests that this project will be [...]
Well, I was reading this press item about a team of scientists from the University of Melbourne and Baylor College of Medicine who are sequencing the genome of Helicoverpa armigera aka cotton bollworm, corn earworm, tobacco budworm.. you get the picture, it’s a major agricultural pest. One thing caught my eye, they expect it to [...]
We’ve written before about the feel of ‘a genome a day’ around here. RPM at Evolgen points to a paper that suggests his prediction (from last year) that “de novo sequencing of whole eukaryotic genomes may be a thing of the past.” Perhaps he is correct, though we do have quite a large number of [...]
I am still digesting (so to speak) the conference I went to the last couple days at JGI. The thrust of the conference was the sequencing and study of genomes (both biomass fuelstock and bacteria/fungus digesters ) to help create a liquid fuel source for our energy needs. I found it to be a fascinating [...]
I want to say ‘keeps the ? away” but can’t think of anything. This is just a quick post. Mary’s first line on the corn genome post, “sometimes it feels like ‘another day, another genome‘ round here got me to thinking”, it isn’t so far off the mark. According to GOLD there are 905 ongoing [...]
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