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...
General News
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
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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
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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...
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...
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...
Describing the Dataflow
22 October 2019
in General News
Please check the "About Persephone" page: we updated the text by adding a Dataflow section that describes the typical data...