October 2015 cover “Histone butterflies” by Luisa Lente. Inspired by Salvador Dalí.

Today is national DNA day, celebrating the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the publication of the proposed structure of DNA in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick (PDF here).

This year for DNA day, we wanted to highlight papers reporting new genome sequences of organisms from peanuts to Papilio butterflies published in Nature Genetics over the last year. All reference genomes are published open access under a CC-BY licence.  Continue reading →