Nanopore and Hi-C produce a new fully-phased, chromosome-scale genome for the red raspberry. On October 22, scientists at KeyGene revealed the first fully-phased, chromosome-scale reference genome for the red raspberry, sequenced with Oxford Nanopore long-read technology and scaffolded and phased into full chromosomes using Phase Genomics’ Proximo™ Hi-C method.   Assembling complex plant genomes used to... Read more »

Congratulations to Dr. Ben Tully on winning this year’s Project ProxiMeta: 2019 Metagenomics Award! Read more about his project, 4. The Complete Hydrothermal Microbial Metal Metabolism This summer, researchers from across the U.S. sent in short proposals for a chance to win a full-service ProxiMeta™ microbiome workup for a sample of their choice. ProxiMeta combines shotgun metagenomics with in... Read more »

Win a Free Proximity-Ligation Metagenomics Project Win a chance to collaborate with Phase Genomics on a metagenomics research project. The grand prize winner will receive a full-service ProxiMeta Metagenome Deconvolution project, including proximity-ligation and shotgun library prep, sequencing, and analysis. Characterize a microbial community of your choice and assemble hundreds of bacterial and eukaryotic genomes, associate plasmids and phage with hosts,... Read more »

  Co-author Kevin McKernan of Medicinal Genomics talks more about the past, present, and future of cannabis genomic research. Read more about his newly published cannabis genome assembly project using Proximo Hi-C scaffolding featured in The Genetic Literacy Project.   What is the difference between hemp and marijuana? How can we use genomics to answer this question?... Read more »

  New Genome Published for Malaria Vector Mosquito, An. funestus.  Plasmodium parasites—the microbes that cause malaria—are right at home in the tropics. After all, tropical regions harbor the two animals that the malaria parasites need to complete their complex lifecycle: female Anopheles mosquitoes and human beings. And in 2017 alone, Plasmodiumracked up 219 million cases of malaria, with 435,000 deaths…... Read more »

Co-authors Dr. Alexander Mikheyev of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and Dr. Jay Evans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bee Research Laboratory had such great answers that we wanted to share some of them. This research was also featured in ZME Science. Why is it important and useful to have a high-quality... Read more »

  Phase Genomics is dedicating the rest of this month (January, 2019) to the beginning of “The Era of Platinum Genomes” to celebrate recent advancements in genome assembly; researchers now have the ability to generate chromosome-scale, fully-phased diploid genome assemblies for any species by combining two technologies: long-read sequencing data from PacBio and Phase Genomics’... Read more »

  From releasing the world’s first Hi-C kits for plants and animals to publishing the most contiguous human genome assembly to date, Phase Genomics has had a year filled with new papers, new discoveries, and new applications. Proximity-Guided Assembly is continuing to fuel genomic research and here is a brief recap of newsworthy items in... Read more »

  Antibiotic resistance is a rapidly growing global health threat as bacteria share and spread resistance genes via plasmids and other mobile genetic elements. Several teams of researchers applied a new method to understand which microorganisms house genes for antibiotic resistance within complex microbiome communities. Read the paper, Linking the Resistome and Plasmidome to the... Read more »

Phase Genomics partnered with Browne Family Vineyards to begin to understand, the microbial makeup of soils within different vineyards across the state of Washington. The findings were unveiled at the Pacific Science Center’s “STEM: Science Uncorked” winetasting event.