Tag Archives: BluePippin

A draft genome of the brown alga, Cladosiphon okamuranus, S-strain: a platform for future studies of ‘mozuku’ biology

August 2016 Authors: Koki Nishitsuji, Asuka Arimoto, Kenji Iwai, Yusuke Sudo, Kanako Hisata, Manabu Fujie, Nana Arakaki, Tetsuo Kushiro, Teruko Konishi, Chuya Shinzato, Noriyuki Satoh and Eiichi Shoguchi Info: Scientists from Japan sequenced the genome of Cladosiphon okamuranus, an edible … more »

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DSBCapture: in situ capture and sequencing of DNA breaks

August 2016 Authors: Stefanie V Lensing, Giovanni Marsico, Robert Hänsel-Hertsch, Enid Y Lam, David Tannahill & Shankar Balasubramanian Info: Scientists at Cancer Research UK developed and validated a new sequencing-based protocol to spot double-stranded DNA breaks in situ; these regions … more »

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At the University of Delaware, Early Adopter Genomics Core Spots New Science Trends

The genomics core facility at the University of Delaware has set itself apart from other service providers by being among the first to adopt new sequencing technologies. The strategy has been a success: today, the facility serves customers around the … more »

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Complete Genome Sequence of a Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain Carrying blaNDM-1 on a Multidrug Resistance Plasmid

July/August 2016 Authors: Sean Conlan, Anna F. Lau, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Tara N. Palmore, Karen M. Frank, and Julia A. Segre Info: NIH scientists sequenced the genome of the first blaNDM-1-positive strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae detected in the institute’s hospital. They found three plasmids, … more »

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Analysis of tandem gene copies in maize chromosomal regions reconstructed from long sequence reads

July 2016 Authors: Jiaqiang Dong, Yaping Feng, Dibyendu Kumar, Wei Zhang, Tingting Zhu, Ming-Cheng Luo, and Joachim Messing Info: Scientists from Rutgers University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed copy number variation in the highly repetitive maize genome using … more »

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Complete telomere-to-telomere de novo assembly of the Plasmodium falciparum genome through long-read (>11 kb), single molecule, real-time sequencing

June 2016 Authors: Shruthi Sridhar Vembar, Matthew Seetin, Christine Lambert, Maria Nattestad, Michael C. Schatz, Primo Baybayan, Artur Scherf, and Melissa Laird Smith Info: Scientists in France and the US used PacBio sequencing to characterize the AT-rich genome of this … more »

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A survey of the sorghum transcriptome using single-molecule long reads

June 2016 Authors: Salah E. Abdel-Ghany, Michael Hamilton, Jennifer L. Jacobi, Peter Ngam, Nicholas Devitt, Faye Schilkey, Asa Ben-Hur & Anireddy S. N. Reddy Info: In this publication, scientists from Colorado State University and the National Center for Genome Resources … more »

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Sage Sizing Platforms Recommended for 10x Genomics Libraries

We’re pleased to report that 10x Genomics has released a new sample prep protocol for its Chromium platform that includes the BluePippin and PippinHT size selection platforms from Sage Science. 10x Genomics has gotten a lot of attention in recent … more »

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Scientists Use Multiple Technologies to Produce High-Quality Chinese Genome Assembly

A newly reported genome assembly of a Chinese individual, generated by scientists in China and the US, used long-read PacBio sequencing, short-read Illumina data, and BioNano Genomics physical maps to achieve remarkably high accuracy and contiguity. Along the way, the … more »

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Long-read sequencing and de novo assembly of a Chinese genome

June 2016 Authors: Lingling Shi, Yunfei Guo, Chengliang Dong, John Huddleston, Hui Yang, et al. Info: Scientists in China and the US analyzed the DNA and RNA of a Chinese individual, using PacBio sequencing and BioNano Genomics maps to produce … more »

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