Attempts to conserve the hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin may have just reached a turning point, after landmark genomic research found the species is...

Landmark genomic research has found the endangered hoiho is made up of three distinct subspecies, a discovery that may help guard against a fatal disease.

This study presents 25 new maize genome assemblies and integrates them with 31 publicly available maize genomes to conduct a pangenome analysis that provides genetic insights into drought resistance.

Alarming arthropod decline has been reported from around the world, but we lack conensus on the generality, severity, and potential causes of these declines. We use weather radars for large-scale aer...

Yellow-eyed penguins (hoiho/takaraka, Megadyptes antipodes ) are among the world’s rarest penguins and are regarded as a taonga (treasured) species in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since 2019, chicks on the N...

Yellow-eyed penguins (hoiho/takaraka, Megadyptes antipodes) are among the world's rarest penguins and are regarded as a taonga (treasured) species in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since 2019, chicks on the Ne...

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

Background Structural variants are genomic variants that impact at least 50 nucleotides. Structural variants can play major roles in diversity and human health. Many structural variants are difficult to interpret and understand with existing visualization tools, especially when comprised of inverted sequences or multiple breakend pairs. Results We present SVTopo, a tool to visualize germline structural variants with supporting evidence from high-accuracy long reads in easily understood figures. We include examples of 101 visually complex structural variants from seven unrelated human genomes, manually assigned to ten categories. These demonstrate a broad spectrum of rearrangement and showcase the frequency of complex structural variants in human genomes. Conclusions SVTopo shows breakpoint evidence in ways that aid reasoning about the impact of multi-breakpoint rearrangements. The images created aid human reasoning about the result of structural variation on gene and regulatory regions.

Accurate parametric inference on complex demographic models is a continuing challenge in population genetics. Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) provide richer information than simple population ge...

Title: Postdoctoral Associate Summary statement: The postdoctoral research associate is responsible for developing novel computational methodology for high-throughput sequence genomics tasks, as well ...

Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) provide an expressive and compact way to represent genetic variation data generated by simulations embedded within its genealogical history, and it can dramatical...