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Third funding round of the DFG sequencing costs in projects initiative
Read more: Third funding round of the DFG sequencing costs in projects initiativeThe Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in a third round invites to the submission of scientific projects, in which sequencing will be carried out at the DFG funded competence centres for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) at the Universities Bonn/Köln/Düsseldorf, Dresden, Kiel, and Tübingen. Again, in this call it is planned to fund scientific projects […]
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New technology at the center – Bionano
Read more: New technology at the center – BionanoBionano as a new complementary technology added to the Genome Center’s technological portfolio. The Saphyr system from Bionano is up and running since December 2018. It allows the generation of optical maps for high quality genome assemblies and the sensitive and specific detection of structural variants in genomes. This technology was possible due to the DFG funded NGS-competence […]
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The warm and loving tegu lizard becomes a genetic resource
Read more: The warm and loving tegu lizard becomes a genetic resourceA combination of different sequencing and mapping technologies has been applied to sequence the genome of the tegu at unprecedented quality. Salvator merianae is a lizard from south american forests and savannas. Press release