We have compiled a table that lists the features of the two versions of Persephone. This will help overview the milestones for the development roadmap. In general, we plan to port the most of the features of the Windows version...
In collaboration with our colleagues from KAUST, we have added 21 reference-quality rice genome assemblies to our web portal and to the demo Windows version. Os GJ-temp: IRGSP-1.0 (Nipponbare)Os GJ-subtrp: CHAO MEOOs GJ-trop1: AzucenaOs GJ-trop2: KETAN NANGKAOs cB: ARC 10497Os...
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...