Unlock the Secrets of Animals that Survive Freezing!

The problem is not cheap per se, but rather how to do it well. Human genome re-sequencing is relatively easy, as one is mapping to a reference. De novo assembly from short-reads into coherent scaffolds is a whole different problem. Additionally, BGI does straight-forward sequencing projects very well, it does do novel and complicated projects well. And this is what we are doing. We may have them fill in some of the gaps with HiSeq3000/4000, but I suspect that they won't have better approaches than US based facilities.

Hi~ company BGI from china provide cheap service to seq a whole human genome. Will it be faster and cheaper if just send wood frog DNA to them and pay them? anyway add oil. thx

Hi Aaron, We're going to get started this summer. There was an intentional delay in the start of the project as Illumina introduced their new high capacity HiSeq3000 and HiSeq4000 instruments. There was also time needed to let these instruments find their way to university core-labs. Now that this has happened, we're going to start the process.

Hi! Any progress on the assembly?

Good luck with your fantastic project!

Good luck, buddy!

good luck!

Let's do this

You should send a snippet to BoingBoing, Slashdot, or NPR.

Because Dr. Mitch says so :D

Good luck!

Good luck Andor, Hope you make it there.

This frog might hold the key to the cryopreservation of organs and potentially living organism. I'll be sure to fund soon. The market potential for perfected cryopreservation is amazing.

I hope the project gets funded, Good Luck!!!

Met with people from NSF - very encouraging

"Cool" project!!

Best of luck! Cheers!!

Good luck, I hope the project gets funded!

De novo assembly is a pain! Good luck!

Great ideas here!

Awesome project!

Good Luck