Monthly Archives: January 2018

Expert Q&A: Smithsonian Scientists on Evaluating DNA Quality

With the rapid adoption of long-read sequencing and other technologies that require high molecular weight DNA input, there is rising demand for high-quality samples from biorepositories around the world. To accommodate this, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of … more »

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San Diego Is Calling: Are You Ready for PAG?

It’s the start of a bright, shiny new year. If you’ve been in the genomics field long enough, you know that can mean only one thing: we’re getting ready for PAG! Officially the Plant and Animal Genome XXVI Conference, this … more »

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New Mosquito Assembly to Accelerate Science and Insect Control

There’s a lot to love about the new preprint announcing the first-ever truly high-quality reference genome assembly for the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The large consortium of scientists — the paper features a total of 72 co-authors — came together on … more »

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Nemertean and phoronid genomes reveal lophotrochozoan evolution and the origin of bilaterian heads

December 2017 Authors: Yi-Jyun Luo, Miyuki Kanda, Ryo Koyanagi, Kanako Hisata, et al. Info: Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University and Okayama University in Japan generated draft genomes and transcriptomes of ribbon worms and horseshoe … more »

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