Monthly Archives: January 2015

Still Buzzing about the Coffee Talk at PAG

One of our favorite sessions at last week’s PAG meeting focused on a major sequencing effort to understand the coffee genome. The presentation, from scientists at Cenicafé (Colombia’s National Coffee Research Center) highlighted a new project designed to characterize elements … more »

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PU.1 Opposes IL-7–Dependent Proliferation of Developing B Cells with Involvement of the Direct Target Gene Bruton Tyrosine Kinase

December 2014 Authors: Darah A. Christie, Li S. Xu, Shereen A. Turkistany, Lauren A. Solomon, Stephen K. H. Li, Edmund Yim, Ian Welch, Gillian I. Bell, David A. Hess, and Rodney P. DeKoter Info: Scientists from the University of Western … more »

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Genomic resources for the endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers

December 2014 Authors: Taylor Callicrate, Rebecca Dikow, James W Thomas, James C Mullikin, Erich D Jarvis, Robert C Fleischer1 and NISC Comparative Sequencing Program Info: In this BMC Genomics paper, scientists report assembling the genome sequence of Hemignathus virens, a … more »

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Computational and Statistical Analyses of Insertional Polymorphic Endogenous Retroviruses in a Non-Model Organism

November 2014 Authors: Le Bao, Daniel Elleder, Raunaq Malhotra, Michael DeGiorgio, Theodora Maravegias, Lindsay Horvath, Laura Carrel, Colin Gillin, Tomáš Hron, Helena Fábryová, David R. Hunter and Mary Poss Info: Scientists present a computational method for detecting specific integration sites … more »

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Large DNA in the Spotlight at PAG 2015

This year’s PAG meeting featured the usual treats of interesting organisms being sequenced (koala!), reports from great plant and animal projects, and cool new technology approaches. While we found all of it fascinating, the theme of the meeting for us … more »

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Gearing Up for PAG 2015

San Diego, here we come! We’re getting ready for the annual International Plant and Animal Genome conference, a stellar event that highlights some of the latest and greatest work happening in the agbio realm. PAG is the one conference we … more »

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