We are pleased to welcome King Abdullah University of Science and Technology into the growing community of Persephone users. One of the top-ranking institutions, KAUST advances science and technology through distinctive and collaborative research integrated with graduate education. To learn more about our...
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 nucleotides at the region encoding the junction of S1 and S2 subunits. "This allows effective cleavage by furin and other...
The newly added feature that allows instant BLASTN comparison of aligned sequences can be applied to an interactive sequence comparison for multiple accessions of the infamous coronavirus COVID-19. We also added bat RaTG13 and bat-SL-CoVZC45 coronaviruses and an older SARS-CoV to the...
We continue to support and learn from the largest International Plant and Animal Genome meeting in San Diego CA. Many thanks to all who stopped by our exhibit. This year was special for us because we were able to showcase a...
Please check the "About Persephone" page: we updated the text by adding a Dataflow section that describes the typical data types and file formats of the source data understood by our loader program PersephoneShell. We thought that it would serve...
This was our second year attending the largest Ag-Genomics meeting in the world in San Diego CA. Many thanks to all who stopped by our exhibit as well as those who attended Max Troukhan's talk at the IWGSC workshop (https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxvii/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/36359)...
We are pleased to welcome Mars Wrigley Confectionery into the growing community of Persephone users. We are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration that will make the work of Mars’ scientists more comfortable and productive, while allowing the Persephone team...
Many thanks to all the visitors who stopped by our booth at PAG, as well as those who attended Max Troukhan’s talk at the IRIC workshop. If you did not get a chance to see our demo, don’t worry --...
We are happy to announce that the first pilot version of Persephone for Web has been rolled out at http://web.persephonesoft.com. Our plan is to migrate the major functionality of the fully-featured commercial version to the free web application. For now, you...
We are exploring the new web technologies. Our first version of Persephone for Web will run in a browser using WebGL. Our first experiments have shown impressive results. The plan is to release it in December. The pilot version will work...