Loblolly pine genome is largest ever sequenced
e! Science News - Popular science news 2014-03-20
Summary:
The massive genome of the loblolly pine -- around seven times bigger than the human genome -- is the largest genome sequenced to date and the most complete conifer genome sequence ever published. This achievement marks the first big test of a new analysis method that can speed up genome assembly by compressing the raw sequence data 100-fold.