Added another genome to our sequenced plant genomes wiki, Selaginella moellendorffii, better known as as a spikemoss. Selaginella is a vascular non-seed plant which split from the lineage that gave rise to most of the plants you seed around you every day hundreds of millions of years ago. At 110 megabases, Selaginella is currently the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘genomes’
About the Maize Genome Paper
Looking at the maize genome paper in isolation it’d be easy to wonder what all the fuss was about. The paper itself is only four pages long with (plus a page of citations), with two figures, and as awesome as figure 1 is (and it really is very, VERY awesome), it doesn’t seem like an lot for a project that represents the work of more than 150 authors over four years. But the real fruits of the maize genome project are the sequences that can be found on either maizesequence.org or maizegdb.org and additional exciting research it is already enabling. And as the result of a quirk the way genome sequence is released to the research community, we can already get a sense of some of that other research. (Read on)
Figure from my Research Proposal
Using the one figure I was able to put into my NSF fellowship research proposal I explain a bit about orthology and genome duplications. But more importantly it’s cool looking, and I’ve got a link back to the comparative genomics tool I used to create it so anyone who is interested play around with CoGe.