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...
Blog
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...
Version 4.3.0.109 of the Desktop Version Published
18 December 2019
in Desktop Version
The update has a few technical improvements that make loading the marker data much faster. This is done by storing...
Soybean genome browser (Wm82.a4.v1)
In addition to an older Wm82.a2.v1, we have now the version Wm82.a4.v1 of the soybean genome. We added the new...
Solanum lycopersicum SL4.0 (tomato) genome browser
11 November 2019
in Web Version
We have downloaded the assembly and annotation of the reference tomato genome version SL4.0, as well as other tomato varieties...