Past genome sequencing facilitates additional species

The International Conference on the Status of Plant and Animal Genome Research has been held annually at the Town and Country Hotel in San Diego since 1993, and during the 26th annual conference, Jan. 13-17, the Jan. 14 session on plant and animal paleogenomics included a presentation noting that completion of past genome sequencing facilitates genomic sequencing for other species.

Tao Zhao of Wageningen University in The Netherlands presented “Comparative Analysis of Mammal and Angiosperm Phylogenomic Synteny Networks” during the workshop.

“Over the last two decades we have sequenced so many...