Want to hear something on #banana #sequencing and #genomics? Don't mis out on Alexander Wittenberg talk on banana pangenome construction at the #nanoporeconf Oxford Nanopore London calling.

Happy to present banana 🍌 pangenome using Oxford Nanopore duplex data at #nanoporeconf The insights obtained help in breeding new varieties that are resistant to Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (TR4) and Black Sigatoka. Thanks Willem van Rengs for the assemblies and comparisons.

Breaking the rules of tomato sexual reproduction by designing a polyploid genome via diploid clonal gametes. Read all about it here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Herro error corrected @keygene banana 🍌 Oxford Nanopore simplex reads versus duplex and HiFi data. Amazing work by Mile Sikic and team. See you next week in London! #nanoporeconf #accuracy #pangenome #banana

Associated research briefing written by Yazhong Wang and I is also now published: rdcu.be/dIExV

‼️15th of June is the last day to register for the PLANT MEIOSIS MEETING‼️ Hurry up if you want to take part in this special event. We guarantee excellent science🔬 good food and great atmosphere😎 pmm.amu.edu.pl

Error corrected ONT data assembled with Hifiasm. Almost as easy to work with as HiFi data

“When the picture was developed, I realized that it was a moment in time when the mentor passes the torch to the student,” said Tim Mulligan, Uplands Farm Manager and the man behind the lens for this beloved photo of Rob Martienssen and Barbara McClintock. 📸🌽

Looking forward to present in the Oxford Nanopore workshop during PAG-International Plant & Animal Genome Conference Australia in three weeks; “ Unveiling the Banana 🍌 Pangenome: A Leap Towards Sustainable Cultivation and Enhanced Disease Resistance” #banana #Diversity #pangenome #TR4 #keygene pag.confex.com/pag/au2024/mee…

Love connecting the biology to the data every once in a while! 🍌🍌

In just one week I will be representing @keygene presenting at #PAGAuatralia int he Oxford Nanopore workshop on the banana 🍌 pangenome; pag.confex.com/pag/au2024/mee… Looking forward to catch up!

Harnessing heterosis in super-hybrid tomato and rice 🍅🌾. #breeding #MiMe #hybrid Wonderful research from colleagues at the MPIPZ in Cologne! Read more about it here: mpg.de/23545900/turbo…

The latest hifiasm can directly assemble standard Oxford Nanopore simplex R10 reads, without HERRO correction or other preprocessing, to phased contigs of contiguity comparable to HiFi assembly. Like before, you can further add ultra-long, Hi-C or trio data for better assembly.

Our new review article “To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis” is now published open access in The Plant Journal dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Radboud University

We developed Varigraph, a pangenome graph based variant (SNP/indel/SV) genotyper tailored for plant genomes, outperforms current state-of-the-art genotypers for plants, have tested on Arabidopsis, maize, wheat, rice, and autopolyploid potato. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

compleasm-0.2.7 released, supporting the latest BUSCO dataset. Also a new option --retrocopy for marking potential processed pseudogenes. github.com/huangnengCSU/c…

Telomere-to-telomere de novo assembly from standard ONT reads (LSK114, Simplex). A really exciting advance—makes high-quality assembly practical for population-scale sequencing! Preprint from Haoyu Cheng, Heng Li and colleagues biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint on hifiasm (ONT)! We can now achieve near T2T human genome assembly using only ONT Simplex reads—in just half a day, with or without ultra-long sequencing. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are looking for a new colleague to work as a postdoctoral researcher on crop genomics and machine learning! The position is within our GenomeDesigner project (ru.nl/en/research/re…). Feel free to be in touch or directly apply here: ru.nl/en/working-at/… Please share!!!

Tomorrow Luciana Gaccione from Lorenzo Barchi' lab will explain on our Oxford Nanopore day at HHU Düsseldorf, how to turn 9.41 data(!) into a high quality pangenome. If you can't make it read all about it here as well: nature.com/articles/s4146…