SCUT students' academic paper published in Nature

On Dec 7, 'Building the sequence map of the human pan-genome' was published in Nature Biotechnology, a sub-journal of an international core scientific journal Nature. This high-level academic paper is composed by LUO Ruibang, the co-first author, and JIN Xin, the named author, both of whom are students of Innovative Program of SCUT. The research finding complements the reference human genome sequence by applying new whole-genome assembly approach to do gene splicing of several individuals, indicates the existence of 'there or no' gene mutation in human genome, and puts forward the concept of 'human pan-genome'. This paper sets a new standard of human genome sequencing and points out the research direction of medical science in the future.

LUO Ruibang, the co-first author, and JIN Xin, the named author, are both students of "2.5+1.5" Human Genome Sciences Innovative Program for Undergraduates, jointly established by SCUT and Shenzhen Genomics Research Institute. This Innovative Program was established this May, and 25 outstanding students majored in bioscience, computer science, software engineering, mathematics and physics were selected to study and do researches in Shenzhen Genomics Research Institute. LUO Ruibang is a junior majoring in Bioengineering and JIN Xin is a senior majoring in Biotechnology.

Apart from this publication, SHAO Haojing, also a student of Innovative Program, has his paper 'Complete Resequencing of 40 Genomes Reveals Domestication Events and Genes in Silkworm' published as a named author in Science this August.

Edited by HU Nanping and CAO Jinrong

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