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 »
Next generation sequencing technologies have changed forever the genetics and medical genomics landscape. Advances have been made that were… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Sequencing multiple individuals from a single species allows researchers to ask key biological questions regarding, for example, the diversity and… Read more »