Steven Salzberg at #bog13: Assembling 22Gb Conifer Genome – Homologus
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Steven Salzberg’s group at John’s Hopkins university is working on assembling the genome of a tree that is as tall as his publication list. He was kind enough to share the slides of his talk at the Biology of Genome 2013 conference taking place in Cold Spring Harbor Lab.
Few highlights of the talk based on his slides, private email exchanges and incredibly informative twitter updates from @leonidkruglyak, @ewanbirney and other #bog13 attendees:
Gymnosperms are way out in the phylogenetic tree of plants, and the other two out-branches in the following figure are fern and moss. JGI already sequenced fern and moss genomes. Gymnosperm genome will help biologist understand genetic diversity of higher plants.
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