Loblolly Pine Genome is Largest Ever Sequenced
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 00:30
in Biology & Nature
The massive genome of the loblolly pine--around seven times bigger than the human genome--is the largest genome sequenced to date and the most complete conifer genome sequence ever published. This achievement marks the first big test of a new analysis method that can speed up genome assembly by compressing the raw sequence data 100-fold.