We have loaded three genomes for blueberry species (Vaccinium corymbosum and Vaccinium darrowii).There are two haploid Vaccinium darrowii genomes (pri and alt). Only one of them (pri) has gene annotation. To align the two genomes, we have created artificial marker...
Encouraged by communication with the scientists at the Plant and Animal Genome conference, we loaded another large genome (Avena sativa ,11 Gbp) to the Persephone portal. The version PepsiCo v2 OT3098 was downloaded from GrainGenes. Currently, the tracks with gene...
This year, the Persephone team enjoyed a great amount of attention at the Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego, both in our two workshop presentations as well as at the exhibition. At our exhibit booth, we've had the opportunity...
The International Weed Genomics Consortium (IWGC) provides a platform for private and public collaboration to develop genomic tools and resources and to stimulate global research in weed biology and management. With their help, we picked 14 most popular weed genomes...
Our collection of coffee genomes has got another entry: Coffea canephora (DH200-94). All four coffee genomes are cross-linked by using the ortholog gene pairs. Chromosome 1 for four Coffea genomes: C. humblotiana, C. eugenioides, C. canehora, and C. arabica. The...
For each aligned NGS read, we have added a detailed view. If you click the read on a BAM/CRAM track, you will see the form with various properties of the read including the details of the mapping, the base qualities...
We are pleased to announce that The Kazusa DNA Research Institute has licensed Persephone. Our tool will be used at the Institute to provide services such as genome analysis of cultivated plants and related microorganisms, and development of practical technology...
A new work called "Chromosome-scale assembly of the wild wheat relative Aegilops umbellulata" has been published in Nature. The data for the genome of Aegilops umbellulata is hosted at the Persephone web portal. Two of our colleagues (Maxim Troukhan and Maksym...
Minimap2 Our next major feature upgrade of Persephone includes interesting new functions. First of all, we integrated minimap2 - a popular alignment tool that, besides aligning short reads, can be used for sequence comparisons on the scale of full chromosomes. As you...
Our community is growing! Cornell University's School of Integrative Plant Science licensed Persephone. Our new customer uses genomic tools to better understand hybrid vigor, sex determination and pest and disease resistance in shrub willow bioenergy crops. More recently, they have initiated...