Sentences with phrase «quality genome of»

PULLMAN, Wash. — Discovery of the first high - quality genome of quinoa, published this week in Nature, could help create healthier, tastier varieties of this protein - packed «super food.»

A motivated high school student with access to a nearby biology lab can assemble a reference - quality genome of an actual species, like a butterfly, for the cost of a science fair project.»

By comparing key sites on the tooth DNA with corresponding sites in the high - quality genomes of the Denisova girl, Neandertals, and modern humans, they revealed that the Denisovan inhabitants in that one cave were not closely related.

Three research groups sequenced high - quality genomes of 787 people from over 270 populations.

«Sequencing technology and computational biology,» Eichler and his team wrote in their paper, «have now advanced to the stage where individual laboratories can generate high quality genomes of mammals.

A group of scientists from the United States, Sweden, Canada, and the UK, has sequenced and analyzed the complete high - quality genomes of two woolly mammoths...

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With this in mind, the Materials Genome Initiative is building databases of material properties like strength, density and other things, and also includes computer models to predict what processes will achieve the qualities a manufacturer is looking for.

DNA sequencing to create fine wine: The West Australian Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) are leading a national project that uses grape genome sequencing to examine how DNA make - up of the vine affects the taste and quality of wine...

Fourth, higher quality maternal interactions have been shown to improve brain development at 5, 10 and 24 months.34 Fifth, there is growing evidence to suggest that the beneficial effects of exclusive breastfeeding may be moderated by the infant's genome, 35,36 and the metabolism of the fatty acids in maternal breast milk.37 For example, Krol et al. 36 showed that infants exclusively breastfed for a longer duration (above the 50th percentile) showed a heightened sensitivity and interest in a happy visual stimulus (eyes) than infants exclusively breastfed for a shorter duration (below the 50th percentile).

When the scientists analyzed the genomes of 80 birch trees from across Europe, they discovered a rich array of selective sweeps in genes that influence important qualities such as tree growth and wood production.

«The problem in older women is the quality of the nuclear genome in their eggs, and adding more mitochondria will not help that problem,» she says.

The estimate of the number of human genes has been repeatedly revised down from initial predictions of 100,000 or more as genome sequence quality and gene finding methods have improved, and could continue to drop further.

The mouse, dog and human genomes are of high quality whereas the three others are at different stages of analysis completion.»

The performance of our workflow was assessed on vertebrate genome assemblies of various qualities (platypus, pig, horse, dog, mouse and human).

«For chloroplast genome recovery from total DNA sequence data, the deliberate identification of reads that represent chloroplast DNA inserts into the nuclear genome allowed us to attain a higher - quality chloroplast genome assembly in a time - and cost - effective way,» Garaycochea explains.

In any case, however, high quality nuclear genome data from more than one individual would be necessary to fully investigate this proposed wave of human migration out of Africa, and is an intriguing area for future study.

The first high quality draft of the mouse genome has been greeted by geneticists as a «Rosetta stone» that will help unravel the secrets of our own genes.

«To our knowledge this is the longest genome sequence with the highest quality ever obtained for an extinct avian species,» Hung and his colleagues wrote of the achievement.

In natural, unaltered organisms, she explains, each sequence of DNA in a genome codes for a particular outcome, expressed as a protein that determines a quality of the individual or even the species as a whole.

The genomes could help breeders produce trees with better wood quality and insect resistance, says John MacKay of Laval University in Quebec, who worked on both spruce genomes.

«The quality of this sequence is comparable to the first sequencing of the human genome as published 15 years ago, which revolutionized biomedical research at that time,» enthuses Matthias Platzer — research group leader at the FLI and involved in both the human and fish genome sequencing progressions.

This image depicts a phylogenetic tree of over 3,800 high quality and non-redundant bacterial genomes.

The system is designed for projects such as rapid and cost - effective generation of high - quality, whole - genome de novo assemblies.

But until recently, fungaria were of limited use for genetic research because of the technical complexity of genome sequencing and the poor quality of DNA samples obtained from old, dried specimens.

While the technology was used with the goal of attaining very high quality genome assemblies, DOE JGI scientists have now additionally taken advantage of this sequencing platform to explore epigenetic (5mC, 6mA) modifications.

That's easy: A team of scientists from the United States and France has produced a high - quality draft genome of Coffea canephora.

In the past 6 months, these approaches have led to a flood of high - quality animal and plant genomes in preprints and published papers.

However, that DNA was not of high enough quality to enable a complete genome analysis.

Pääbo will continue sequencing Neanderthal DNA until he has a genome that is similar in completion and quality to the existing map of the chimpanzee genome.

To overcome the extreme genomic complexity, the team used new long - read sequencing technology that boosted the quality of the genome sequence obtained by more than one hundred fold over standard short - read approaches.

The discovery, the product of a multiyear effort to provide a high - quality full genome map of the oil palm plant and to scour the sequence for genes of importance to both science and industry, has major implications for agriculture and the environment.

Yet no gene or genome can ever tell us what sorts of qualities those will be.

That genetic explanation was finally made possible because of technology that enabled the lab to perform high - quality sequencing of specific genome regions.

We generated a high - quality draft genome of the species Coffea canephora, which displays a conserved chromosomal gene order among asterid angiosperms.

But these genomes were too low quality to produce a reliable catalog of differences.

About half of the 31 copies came from the girl's mother and half from her father, producing a genome «of equivalent quality to a recent human genome,» says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not part of the team.

The genome of the Western lowland gorilla has now been sequenced and assembled at a high level of quality beginning to approach that of the mouse and human genome.

«For the first time in animals, we have assembled a high - quality genome, permitting the discovery of all the genetic differences between two individuals within a species,» said Mahul Chakraborty, a postdoctoral scholar in the Emerson laboratory and first author on the study.

He is a leader of the recently assembled Simons Genome Diversity Project, which contains 300 high - quality genomes from 142 populations, including the San.

The Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium publishes its efforts of a high - quality sequence and analysis of the mouse gGenome Sequencing Consortium publishes its efforts of a high - quality sequence and analysis of the mouse genomegenome.

To build MIDAS, researchers first generated a database of 31,007 high - quality bacterial genomes.

In collaboration with a group of international colleagues, BTI researchers created a high - quality draft genome sequence of the whitefly and identified genes that code for proteins.

To carry out projects in genome analysis that will lead to significant improvements in people's health and quality of life, in collaboration with the Catalan, Spanish, European and International research and clinical community.

• Genetic quality control monitoring Whole genome scanning (rapid or more detailed) for routine strain background monitoring, or in case of suspected contamination error, is a quick, inexpensive and reliable method compared to physical, immunological and biochemical assays, traditionally used for genetic quality assessment.

This information would then be added into the core Ensembl gene - set (the reference zebrafish genome used by researchers around the world) in such a way as to increase the quantity and quality of the gene - set without adding artifacts or pseudogenes.

James Giovannoni generated the gene expression data through RNA - sequencing and Lukas Mueller provided additional analysis to confirm the quality of the genome assembly.

This effort is expected to generate a high - quality resource for those responsible for the management of wild salmon stocks and the salmon aquaculture industry, as well as providing a reference genome for work with other salmonids.

An international team of researchers has produced the first high - quality genome sequence for the bottle gourd, also known as calabash, and reconstructed...

Moreover, we demonstrated that although the Oxford Nanopore technology is a relatively new sequencing technology, currently with a high error rate, it is already useful in the generation of high - quality genome assemblies.

A Sanger / pyrosequencing hybrid approach for the generation of high - quality draft assemblies of marine microbial genomes.