EarthBioGnome

#Avocado lovers! #NSFfunded scientists have sequenced the avocado genome, laying foundation for farming improvements. bit.ly/2MhmeOE

Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Did you know that you can request non-human tissue samples & data from spaceflight experiments in NASA's GeneLab Data Repository? Visit NASA's Institutional Scientific Collection at Ames Research Center: nasa.gov/ames/research/… GeneLab data repository: genelab-data.ndc.nasa.gov/genelab/projec…

SAVE OUR BEES! We've developed a rapid analysis method called ‘Reverse Metagenomics’ (RevMet) which can identify the plants that individual bees visit using the MinION, a portable DNA sequencer @oxfordnanopore. okt.to/E4CxbH @richardmleggett @NedPeel @insectsoup

Come watch us chat with @koadman at @LongasTech about MorphoSeq: virtual long reads from short read platform! Live now! youtube.com/watch?v=4Ue3kl… #longreadclub

Merging with AI would be suicide for the human mind: 'Ray Kurzweil, the futurist & director of engineering at Google, envisions a technotopia where human minds upload to the Cloud, becoming hyperconscious, immortal superintelligences.' ft.com/content/0c4fac… via @financialtimes