PAG 2025
Attending the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) meeting in San Diego is always a highlight for us. The audience and the functionality of our tool match very well. Our previous experience working with plant genomes has allowed us to establish...
General News
The New Year Update: improved pangenome visualization.
Happy New Year, All! We are going to the Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego. There, we will present our latest version of Persephone. It includes new features that make navigating pangenomes easier.We are introducing the redesigned Synteny matrix,...
A new video overview of Persephone has been released
13 November 2024
in General News
We have published a new video overview of Persephone's main functionality. While the 26-minute video doesn't delve into every detail, it offers a comprehensive high-level review designed to help new users get acquainted with the application. We hope this overview...
Persephone Software at ASHG 2024
Attending a human genome conference (American Society of Human Genetics) for the first time was an exciting milestone for us. Persephone is genome-agnostic and suitable for a variety of species, so we believed that researchers in human genomics could greatly...
The Summer Update: Motif Search and Analysis of Variants
We keep adding new features to Persephone. In the Summer Update, we introduced DNA motif search and the tools for analysis of variation in a given genomic region. DNA motif search This feature has been designed to help answer challenging questions...
New data set: Wheat 2.8 M SNPs on IWGSC v2.1
We have added a new set of SNPs for the wheat genome (IWGSC v2.1). The VCF file with the variants (ExomeCapture) was downloaded from https://zenodo.org/records/7852690. According to the description of the dataset at Variations - WHEAT URGI (inra.fr), "VCF file of 2,799,166...
Did you know? Web Persephone can be installed as an app.
A simple trick will help you opening the web version of Persephone as an application in its own browser window. This will add some extra space for the application as the address and the bookmark bars will be hidden: Saving Persephone...
Starke Ayres: our new client
07 May 2024
in General News
We're pleased to extend a warm welcome to Starke Ayres at the Persephone club! Starke Ayres stands as the largest independent vegetable seed company in South Africa, catering to both commercial and consumer markets. Established in 1877, the company boasts a...
Human pangenome visualization. Phase one.
In addition to the popular versions of the Human genome, such as GRCh38 or CHM13v2, we now host full assemblies for 96 individuals from the Human pangenome. The sequences were downloaded from NCBI. Unlike the well-annotated data sets, the sequences...
Set common scaling and normalization for quantitative tracks
A small but useful feature has been added: changing some properties of quantitative tracks can be applied to all visible tracks that belong to the same group. This can be done with the scaling (log, square root, linear), normalization (by...