The person is Michael Le Page.
A man and his aquarium.
It was indeever Madireddy.
A high school student in California is the first person in the world to sequence the freshwater angelfish's genome.
Calvin, Indeever's pet angelfish, passed away in March. He wanted to keep his fish alive. I decided to sequence the genome of the angelfish in order to contribute to the scientific community and also pay homage to my pet.
The community lab in Santa Clara, California called BioCurious makes advanced equipment available for a small membership fee.
The fish was kept at -80C at the lab. He prepared and learned how to sequence it.
Over the course of two weekends, the sequence was done. The sequence of the DNA molecule is read off by the sequencer.
It is slightly less accurate than competing methods but can sequence much longer. It is easier to assemble the genome by putting all the pieces back together than it is by doing it alone.
It took two months to analyse the data. A short paper about the sequence data was published on 18 October.
A fish in an aquarium.
H. Schmidbauer is the owner of mauritius images.
The angelfish is a popular aquarium fish around the world. The genome is similar to those of related fish.
He was able to raise over $1,000 by raising funds on the Crowdfunding website.
The people I met there were the most important part of the lab. Two people in particular were very supportive of me.
Gordon Sanghera says that this is a wonderful example of an inquisitive spirit and what young scientists can do when technology barriers are removed.
He is a keen fish-keeper and has done work using CRISPR gene editing. Calvin was raised with other hatchlings.
He says that the angelfish in his aquarium are happy and healthy.
There is a journal reference to micropub.biology.
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