We are pleased to welcome Malaysian Palm Oil Board into the growing community of Persephone users. MPOB is the government agency entrusted to serve the country’s oil palm industry. Its main role is to promote and develop national objectives, policies and priorities for...
We have expanded our collection of public data sets by adding several reference genomes of soybean: Glycine max (soybean) and Glycine soja (wild soybean):G. max Wm82.a2.v1G. max Wm82.a4.v1G. max Zhonghuang 13G. max Zhonghuang 13 NCBI version (sequence only)G. max Lee...
We realized the need to have a specialized page listing the latest changes to our data loader application PersephoneShell. This tool is under active development, as we try to cover more of different data types. The new features of PersephoneShell...
We have added the data for 26 Zea mays reference genomes from the pan-genome project "Whole-Genome Assembly of the maize NAM founders" (https://nam-genomes.org/). The source files were downloaded from MaizeGDB.org. To help browsing this pan-genome data set and provide the...
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)...