Updated: Nov 7 2022 6:17PM

Washington, Nov 7 (PTI) A high school student in the US is the first ever to sequence the genome of the freshwater angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare.

Whole genome sequencing (WGS), also known as full or complete or entire genome sequencing, is the process of determining the entirety, or nearly the entirety, of the DNA sequence of an organism’s genome at a single time.

According to Indeever’s paper, published in the journal microPublication Biology, the final genome assembly of freshwater angelfish consisted of 15,486 contigs and was 734.29 MB in size. Contigs are is a set of overlapping DNA segments that together represent a consensus region of DNA. Consensus regions or sequences serve as a simplified representation of the population.

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