Tree of Life
- 3 August 202315 min read
From sex-changing fish to asexual lizards, these and many more species will be captured in a new sex database made possible by the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s powerful genomic resources.
- 21 June 202319.3 min read
Sanger researchers are involved in large-scale projects that aim to revolutionise how we monitor and understand global biodiversity – starting with insects. But some of their work is starting closer to home, working with schools and local communities to monitor insect biodiversity across Cambridgeshire and Essex.
- 8 December 202226.6 min read
Meet the software developers, informaticians and bioinformaticians who are helping to sequence the DNA of all life on earth.
- 8 December 202210.4 min read
Find out about Genomes on a Tree (or GoaT) database, which will hold data for the hundreds of thousand of species that are currently having their genomes sequenced for the first time.
- 9 November 202231.2 min read
We talk to Physilia Chua about her work to monitor biodiversity and make DNA sequencing more accessible.
- 10 October 20229.4 min read
New genome sequence will boost research into the evolution and population genetics of killer whales