Element Biosciences, Inc., will share news of its sequencing methodology and host a workshop on higher accuracy sequencing for improved variant detection in Washington DC from today.
Blake Meyers, a principal investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a professor of plant sciences from the University of Missouri - Columbia, has been named the new director and Novozymes Chair in Genomics at the UC Davis Genome Center. Meyers, who studies plant RNA biology, bioinformatics and functional genomics, will step into the role on March 1.
The genome of mammals' common ancestor has been computationally reconstructed by researchers, enabling scientists to interpret where and why selective pressures occurred in history.