{"id":103310,"date":"2020-03-05T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/genome-assembly-the-holy-grail-of-genome-analysis"},"modified":"2020-03-05T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:25:00","slug":"genome-assembly-the-holy-grail-of-genome-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/genome-assembly-the-holy-grail-of-genome-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Genome Assembly \u2014 The Holy Grail of Genome Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genome-assembly-the-holy-grail-of-genome-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2019 novel coronavirus or coronavirus disease (<em class=\"\">COVID-19<\/em>) outbreak has threatened the entire world at present. Scientists are working day and night to understand the origin of COVID-19. You may have heard the news recently that the complete genome of COVID-19 has been published. How did scientists figure out the complete genome of COVID-19? In this article, I will explain how we can do this.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong class=\"\">genome<\/strong> is considered as all the genetic material, including all the genes of an organism. The genome contains all the information of an organism that is required to build and maintain it.<\/p>\n<p>How can we read the information present in the genome? This is where <strong class=\"\">sequencing<\/strong> comes into action. Assuming you have read my <a class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/dna-sequence-data-analysis-starting-off-in-bioinformatics-3dba4cea04f\">previous article on DNA analysis<\/a>, you know that sequencing is used to determine the sequence of individual genes, full chromosomes or entire genomes of an organism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 novel coronavirus or coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has threatened the entire world at present. Scientists are working day and night to understand the origin of COVID-19. You may have heard the news recently that the complete genome of COVID-19 has been published. How did scientists figure out the complete genome of COVID-19? In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}