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...
Web Version
Multi-trace Quantitative Tracks
13 April 2021
in Web Version
We added a new feature to the Web version of Persephone. It allows users to merge several quantitative tracks (e.g.,...
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...
Multiple Soybean Genomes Loaded
We have expanded our collection of public data sets by adding several reference genomes of soybean: Glycine max (soybean) and...
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...
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...
Web Version’s New Feature: Instant Comparison of Genomic Sequences
04 March 2020
in Web Version
We are introducing a new feature that allows to compare nucleotides of aligned maps with one click. First, open two...
Web Version: Major Upgrade Introduces User Tracks
27 January 2020
in Web Version
We rolled out a new version of Web Persephone with major feature upgrade: the users can upload their own tracks,...