The Dresden genome center was part of an international team of researchers led by scientists in Vienna, Dresden and Heidelberg that has now sequenced, assembled, annotated, and analysed the complete axolotl genome, the largest genome ever to be decoded. Press release https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25458

The Dresden genome center has been part of a collaborative effort to sequence the genome of the Schmidtea mediterranea. To overcome the challenge of this exceptionally repetitive genome, the research groups of Jochen Rink and Eugene Myers at the MPI-CBG and Siegfried Schloissnig at HITS utilized Pacific Bioscience’s long-read sequencing technology, situated at the Dresden […]