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Elisabeth Gaskell
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  • The Dictyostelium purpureum genome: insights into the evolution of multicellularity - 1st March 2011
  • Beyond the genome and into the cloud - 8th December 2010
  • Facilitating standardized genome annotations - 26th August 2010

The Dictyostelium purpureum genome: insights into the evolution of multicellularity

01/03/2011

On Biology

In this month’s issue of Genome Biology, Igor V. Grigoriev, Adam Kuspa and colleagues present the genome of Dictyostelium purpureum, a close relative (by… Read more »

Beyond the genome and into the cloud

08/12/2010

On Biology

Next generation sequencing technologies have changed forever the genetics and medical genomics landscape. Advances have been made that were… Read more »

Facilitating standardized genome annotations

26/08/2010

On Biology

Faster and more reliable genome sequencing has meant that the number of personal genome sequences available is increasing rapidly, yet the analysis of personal… Read more »

The fight against crop pathogens

15/07/2010

On Biology

Oomycetes are single celled pathogens of plants; the most widely-known representative of this class is the potato blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, which… Read more »

The real difference between me and you: a map of structural variation in the human genome

19/05/2010

On Biology

As we have been told many times since the publication of the human genome, the age of personal genomics is upon us. However, the vast difference between one… Read more »

The Genome Biology 10th birthday special issue

05/05/2010

On Biology

Genome Biology, which has been proudly publishing some of the most exciting research from all areas of genomics for the past 10 years, celebrates its birthday… Read more »

Barcoded libraries for 454 sequencing

09/02/2010

On Biology

In a paper recently published in Genome Biology, Robert Nicol and colleagues from the Broad Institute in Massachusetts, report a new method for reducing the… Read more »

Biological adventures into the world of cloud computing

20/11/2009

On Biology

Cloud computing is becoming an increasingly popular phenomenon in the world of computing. Analysing data in ‘the cloud’ involves using a self-service… Read more »

The Coral genetic linkage map – an essential resource for Coral biology

10/11/2009

On Biology

Coral reefs are diverse marine ecosystems. Overfishing, pollution and the effects of climate change including, ocean acidification (as a result of rising carbon… Read more »

Mapping differences in 1001 genomes – multiple genomes are better than one

18/09/2009

On Biology

Sequencing multiple individuals from a single species allows researchers to ask key biological questions regarding, for example, the diversity and… Read more »

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