Melissa Wong, a PhD student from the National University of Malaysia and co-advised by Prof.Charls H. Cannon of XTBG and Prof. Wickneswari Ratnam, joined the Ecological Evolution Group in 2009 for several months to learn bioinformatic techniques for analyzing next-gen sequencing techniques. 

Ms. Wong conducted her study on the whole transcriptome sequence from two parental species of Acacia to discover SNPs to use as breeding markers in a field-tested set of hybrids.  The final published version of her paper is now available on the BMC Genomics website, where it is currently ‘Highly Accessed’.

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