{"id":158260,"date":"2023-02-16T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/tricorder-tech-nih-software-assembles-complete-genome-sequences-on-demand"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:25:47","slug":"tricorder-tech-nih-software-assembles-complete-genome-sequences-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/tricorder-tech-nih-software-assembles-complete-genome-sequences-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"Tricorder Tech: NIH Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tricorder-tech-nih-software-assembles-complete-genome-sequences-on-demand2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Institutes of Health researchers have developed and released an innovative software tool to assemble truly complete (i.e., gapless) genome sequences from a variety of species.<\/p>\n<p>This software, called Verkko, which means \u201cnetwork\u201d in Finnish, makes the process of assembling complete genome sequences more affordable and accessible. A description of the new software was published today in Nature Biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Verkko grew from assembling the first gapless human genome sequence, which was finished last year by the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, a collaborative project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Institutes of Health researchers have developed and released an innovative software tool to assemble truly complete (i.e., gapless) genome sequences from a variety of species. This software, called Verkko, which means \u201cnetwork\u201d in Finnish, makes the process of assembling complete genome sequences more affordable and accessible. A description of the new software was published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158260","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}