At the end of the last post things were looking up, a source of plant material was found, it was now just a case of waiting for the seeds to be delivered so we could grow some up. This was just before I was due to go to the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG)… Read More A cautionary tale about blackberries [2/2]
some quite interesting* anecdotes associated with the sample collection… Read More Getting a hold of samples [part 2]
[This is a bit long and therefore I’ll split this across several posts] The first, and often most difficult, part of getting a sample for the 25 genomes project is finding out where from. There are a number of reasons for this but it essentially boils down to the fact that the Sanger institute has… Read More Getting a hold of some samples…
select 25 species for sequencing, how hard can it be…… Read More On choosing the 25 species
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