Brilliant song on Genome Assembly!

Brilliant song on Genome Assembly http://t.co/0UomkQuLTB from http://t.co/qu7240vIL2 thanks to @dzerbino
— Michael Schatz (@mike_schatz) May 11, 2014

A song, "Genome Assembly" written by Colleen O'Rourke (student) and Cara Wojciechowski (friend), to the tune of "Brave" by Sara Bareilles, and sung by Cara Wojciechowski, explaining the difficulty of genome assembly by short read sequencing but retaining a desire to assemble complex genomes.

Awesome song! Great singer, too...

==> Download audio file here.


Source: http://www.bx.psu.edu/~ross/ComparGeno/index.html

Pic: http://www.musicfromthegenome.org.uk

Aaaand don't forget that...

Itsy bitsy bacterium gets a bigger genetic code — http://t.co/ZPKZHsspvR an additional 152 artificial amino acids ! Woot!
— Portable Genomics (@portablegenomic) May 8, 2014