{"id":3019,"date":"2023-02-19T07:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:18:03","slug":"what-is-the-verkko-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-verkko-software\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Verkko Software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Verkko Software:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>innovative software for assembling complete, gapless diploid genomes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is developed by researchers from <strong>National Institutes of Health (NIH), US.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Verkko <strong>grew from assembling the first gapless human genome sequence,<\/strong> which was <strong>finished last year by the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium<\/strong>, a collaborative project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How Verkko works?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Different DNA <strong>sequencing technologies generate different types of genomic<\/strong> puzzle pieces. <strong>Some are small and highly detailed<\/strong>, while others are much <strong>bigger though the image is blurry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Verkko <strong>compares and assembles both types of pieces<\/strong> to generate a <strong>complete and accurate picture.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Verkko <strong>starts by putting together the small, detailed pieces<\/strong>, creating many partially assembled but disconnected segments of sequence.<\/li>\n<li>Then, <strong>Verkko compares the assembled regions with the larger, less precise pieces<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These <strong>larger pieces serve as a framework to order the more detailed regions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>final product is an accurate and complete genome sequence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>This software <strong>makes the process of assembling<\/strong> complete genome sequences more <strong>affordable and accessible.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will also <strong>accelerate efforts to generate <\/strong>gapless <strong>genome sequences of species commonly used in research.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Whole genome sequencing?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the act of deducing the complete nucleic acid sequence of the genetic code, or genome, of an organism or organelle (specifically, the mitochondrion or chloroplast).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/science-technology\/innovative-software-assembles-complete-genome-sequences-in-days-480998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Innovative software assembles complete genome sequences in days<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verkko software is an innovative software for assembling complete, gapless diploid genomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}