Singapore-led Consortium Deciphers the Genome of Asian Seabass: First Major Tropical Food Fish with its ‘Genetic Blueprint’ Assembled and Read

16 April 2016, Singapore – Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) is pleased to announce the successful sequencing and assembly of the genome of Asian seabass (also known as barramundi). This is the first major tropical food fish to have its genome completed. The article reporting these data has been published online today in the international journal PLoS Genetics.