January 2016 

Source: ISB News Report
By Agnieszka Golicz and David Edwards

The availability of a reference genome for a species is only the first step towards understanding how hereditary material is related to the observed phenotype of the organism. With the increase in genome sequencing projects, it is becoming clear that minor variations are one of many forms of inherited variation resulting in changes in phenotype. The concept that individuals within a species all have the same genome is now clearly incorrect, and studies are currently underway in a range of species to understand the complete gene content for the species, known as the species pangenome. 

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Published: January 31, 2016