Sergey Koren contributes to bonobo genome assembly

The bonobo (Pan paniscus) genome, a close living relative of humans and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is described in an article which appeared today in the journal Nature. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany along with an international team of collaborators published results on the DNA of an 18-year-old female named Ulindi. The study reports on the evolutionary relationship of the bonobo with the chimpanzee and human genomes. Sergey Koren of the CBCB contributed to the assembly and validation of the genomic sequence.