Author Archives: Alex

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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A Look Back at 2017

As we start to make lists of New Year’s resolutions (with bets on how long they’ll last), it’s the perfect time for a moment to absorb the themes and highlights of 2017. In our corner of the world, that means … more »

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Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling using the methylation-dependent restriction enzyme LpnPI

December 2017 Authors: Ruben Boers, Joachim Boers, Bas de Hoon, Christel Kockx, et al. Info: Scientists at Erasmus Medical Center determined that analysis of genome-wide methylation is challenging when fragment sizes are too small and that better epigenetic results are … more »

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Preprint Roundup: Long-Read Sequencing, ddRAD-seq, and a New Look at Viruses

We always keep our eyes peeled for interesting new research from scientists using Sage Science automated DNA size selection instruments, and several recent preprints caught our attention. Here’s a look: Nanopore Sequencing Reveals High-Resolution Structural Variation in the Cancer Genome … more »

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Mapping and phasing of structural variation in patient genomes using nanopore sequencing

November 2017 Authors: Mircea Cretu Stancu, Markus van Roosmalen, Ivo Renkens, Marleen Nieboer, et al. Info: Scientists used the Oxford MinION nanopore sequencer with a novel pipeline, NanoSV, to detect structural variants from the genomes of two patients. They found … more »

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Long-read sequencing of the coffee bean transcriptome reveals the diversity of full-length transcripts

November 2017 Authors: Bing Cheng, Agnelo Furtado, Robert Henry Info: In this study, researchers generated the transcriptome of the tetraploid Arabica coffee bean, focusing on caffeine and sucrose genes for in-depth analysis. They used the PacBio Iso-Seq method with BluePippin … more »

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De Novo Assembly of a New Solanum pennellii Accession Using Nanopore Sequencing

October 2017 Authors: Maximilian Schmidt, Alxander Vogel, Alisandra Denton, Benjamin Istace, et al. Info: Scientists used Oxford Nanopore technology to sequence Solanum pennellii, a wild species of tomato. They generated a median read length of nearly 12 Kb and produced … more »

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Podcast: Genome Assembly Guru Deanna Church on Linked Reads and Single-Cell Genomics

If you’ve ever relied on the human reference genome, don’t miss this podcast with assembly pioneer Deanna Church. Mendelspod’s Theral Timpson interviews the genome informatics expert who made her name as an integral part of the reference project at the … more »

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