Last few days to apply for the Transcriptomics! Workshop, our 10th Haifa Winter Workshop in Bioinformatics, that will take place on 2-6/3/25. See attached for details.

Eyal, Martin, Daniel, and Maya

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This means it's an ancient chromosome, at least 90 million years old. The discovery of the antiquity of the social chromosome opens the way for future studies in many other species.

We studied the genomic basis of polymorphism in social structure. We identified a "social chromosome" associated with colony structure in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. This chromosome is homologous to the first social chromosome discovered in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta.

On the bus home holding a hard copy of the manuscript that is going to be the peak of my career. Everything else fades in comparison. Look out for the preprint any day now!

Our controlled experiments show that the combination of enzyme choice and size selection (using a Bluepippin instrument) allows for optimizing yield and efficiency. Without accounting for this in advance, a suboptimal design can easily result in waste of 30% of sequencing effort.

Upload your genome and ddgRADer will suggest enzyme choices for the double-digest Restriction-site Associated DNA sequencing protocol (ddRAD-seq) to achieve a desired coverage of the genome, both in terms of number of loci and sequencing depth. The plot shows the predicted fragment size distribution