Tag Archives: genomes
Cracking sex chromosome evolution via egg-laying birds and mammals
Scott Edmunds - January 7, 2021
Ducks, Emu’s, Platypus and Echidna’s, oh my! New work on the duck and other egg-laying animal genomes helps crack sex chromosomes evolution and diversity in a number of bird and monotreme species.
Q&A with Parice Brandies on the Antechinus Genome
Scott Edmunds - November 25, 2020
Parice Brandies presents a Q&A and video on her GigaByte paper on the brown antechinus genome (Antechinus stuartii), a fascinating marsupial with many biological surprises to explore.
Diversity, Ancestry, and the Tenacious Concept of Race: GigaScience at GA4GH
Chris Armit - October 5, 2020
Diversity, Ancestry, and the Tenacious Concept of Race The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is a policy-framing and technical standards-setting organization, seeking to enable responsible genomic data sharing within a human rights framework. GigaScience are organisational members, and their meeting often coincides with the American Society of Genetics meeting that sometimes participate in […]
Guest posting: Optical Mapping allows comprehensiveness and scalability that modern sequencing cannot provide
Nicole Nogoy - July 21, 2014
Guest posting from David Schwartz on how Optical Mapping allows comprehensiveness and scalability that modern sequencing cannot provide
Publish Data: Fight World Hunger
Scott Edmunds - May 29, 2014
3000 Rice Genome Sequences from the Rice3K project making up 13.4TB of data are being made publicly available on World Hunger Day