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Genome Assembly Challenge: Sequencing Variants of Feline Coronavirus in Cyprus

Amanda Warr from The Roslin Institute in the UK presented at London Calling 2024 on “What the cat dragged in: emergence of a highly pathogenic feline/canine recombinant coronavirus.” Warr explained that feline coronavirus (FCoV) is common. In a subset of cases, it mutates once in the cat host. This is called feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). […]
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Liftoff Annotation of Novel Genes from T2T Human Genome

Alaina Shumate from John Hopkins University presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “The annotation of novel genes in a complete human genome.” They began by describing how in 2003 scientists “finished” the Human genome Project but there still was missing sequence! In 2021, the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium actually completed the sequence of a […]
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