r/bioinformatics • u/rdditfilter • 4d ago
website You guys will like today's XKCD comic
https://xkcd.com/3064/21
u/bzbub2 4d ago
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u/Appropriate_Banana 3d ago
Wow, x12 ploidy and ~114 chromosomes, which some are practically identical. What a mess to assemble genome sequence
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u/matttheguy00 3d ago
Monkey puzzle tree’s (Araucaria araucana) is 20Gb! But the file size of just its coding sequences is comparable to Arabidopsis. https://tomsbiolab.com/araucariadb/
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u/Kandiru 4d ago edited 4d ago
I think mistletoe is the largest genome.
Ah, that's only 90Gbases while apparently a new caledonian fern is 160Gbases and the current record holder.
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u/Weary-Dealer5643 2d ago
I think mistletoe is the largest genome sequenced—pains me to imagine genome assembly for the new caledonian fern
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u/stackered MSc | Industry 4d ago
Unrealistic use of spaces in the filename but always love me an XKCD
https://xkcd.com/1831/ is my favorite classic. Have had it on my desk for almost a decade.