Genome of the week has to be the massive 90 Gb assembly of mistletoe, by the Darwin Tree of Life (not on π). #DToL
In 2016, I collected hundreds of berries and squished them onto several small trees in the garden. In 2019, I spotted a sprouting seedling, which fortunately turned out to be a male and a female - so I finally have mistletoe to hang in the house. Only taken six years! More info on the genome and the difficulties encountered here: https://www.darwintreeoflife.org/news_item/2022-the-year-we-built-the-biggest-genome-in-britain-and-ireland/ #genomics #genome #mistletoe
A couple of new butterfly genomes out from #DToL (Darwin Tree of Life)! The first is the high brown #fritillary #Fabriciana #adippe
We've just submitted our #genomesonatree (GoaT) manuscript to Wellcome Open Research!
We've designed GoaT as a versatile, scalable search engine for genomic and sequencing project metadata across the eukaryotic tree of life.
Visit GoaT at https://goat.genomehubs.org to search for your favourite taxon, to explore patterns in genomic metadata or to check out the progress of many of the #EarthBioGenomeProject affiliate projects including #DToL (https://goat.genomehubs.org/projects/DTOL)
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