Tardigrades have relatively small genomes – from 50 to 400 million bases. Despite being small, sequencing a tardigrade genome is not that easy. Few can be grown in culture (we use Hypsibius dujardini ...

Genomics is the study of the full genetic complement of an organism (the genome). It employs recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing methods, and bioinformatics to sequence, assemble, and analyse the ...

The genome is the full genetic complement of an organism, encoded in either DNA or, in many viruses, RNA. It includes both the genes and non-coding sequences.

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