A Major Version Upgrade: Upload Genomes With Annotation
The new version of Web Persephone enables users to upload their genomes in a form of FASTA files. The file...
General News
Added two more Medicago sativa genomes
We added Medicago sativa (alfalfa) genome assemblies: medsa.CADL_HM342.gnm1.rVNY and medsa.XinJiangDaYe.gnm1.12MR from https://legumeinfo.org. Even with missing gene annotation on the...
Introducing Feature Comparison Page
We have compiled a table that lists the features of the two versions of Persephone. This will help overview the...
21 Reference Assemblies Added To The Rice Pan-Genome Collection
In collaboration with our colleagues from KAUST, we have added 21 reference-quality rice genome assemblies to our web portal and...
MPOB Licenses Persephone
10 December 2020
in General News
We are pleased to welcome Malaysian Palm Oil Board into the growing community of Persephone users. MPOB is the government agency entrusted to...
Multiple Soybean Genomes Loaded
We have expanded our collection of public data sets by adding several reference genomes of soybean: Glycine max (soybean) and...
“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...