Multiple Soybean Genomes Loaded
We have expanded our collection of public data sets by adding several reference genomes of soybean: Glycine max (soybean) and...
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“What’s New” page with the log of PersephoneShell’s latest changes
21 September 2020
in General News
We realized the need to have a specialized page listing the latest changes to our data loader application PersephoneShell. This...
26 Zea mays NAM lines in the pan-genome browser
We have added the data for 26 Zea mays reference genomes from the pan-genome project "Whole-Genome Assembly of the...
KAUST Licenses Persephone
09 May 2020
in General News
We are pleased to welcome King Abdullah University of Science and Technology into the growing community of Persephone users. One of the top-ranking...
Does COVID-19 suppress the immune response?
According to the publication in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9), the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 has a polybasic cleavage site due to an insertion of 12...
COVID-19 and other SARS virus genomes loaded
The newly added feature that allows instant BLASTN comparison of aligned sequences can be applied to an interactive sequence comparison for multiple...
Web Version’s New Feature: Instant Comparison of Genomic Sequences
04 March 2020
in Web Version
We are introducing a new feature that allows to compare nucleotides of aligned maps with one click. First, open two...
Web Version: Major Upgrade Introduces User Tracks
27 January 2020
in Web Version
We rolled out a new version of Web Persephone with major feature upgrade: the users can upload their own tracks,...
Citrus sinensis and Citrus maxima genomes loaded
This week's addition is a pair of citrus genomes: C.sinensis (sweet orange) and (pomelo). We uploaded the genomic sequences with...
Persephone at PAG 2020
17 January 2020
in General News
We continue to support and learn from the largest International Plant and Animal Genome meeting in San Diego CA. Many...