Researchers achieve highest-quality moss genome assembly to date
A research team has achieved a gapless assembly of Syntrichia caninervis's genome, totaling 323.44 Mbp with an N50 value of ...
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Long-read sequencing expedites rare disease diagnoses
The problems with SRS in this context are that it can’t provide a comprehensive view of the genome due to its short reading frame, and it can’t reveal from which parent a variant was inherited, a ...
Mapping of a gigantic salamander genome reveals secrets of regeneration
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with teams from Lund University and the Center for Regenerative ...
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DNA Sequencing Technologies Key to the Human Genome Project
The first phase, called the shotgun phase ... set of DNA sequences that spanned the BAC clone. In the whole-genome assembly method (also called the whole-genome random shotgun method), Celera ...
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Long-Read Nanopore Sequencing Improves Rare Disease Diagnosis
Long read sequencing revealed more genetic information in cases of 42 patients with rare diseases while cutting time and cost of diagnoses.
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Dovetail Genomics Announces HudsonAlpha as First North American Certified Service Provider
The Dovetail Certified Service Provider program sets stringent standards of proficiency and data quality that service labs ...
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Long read sequencing reveals more genetic information while cutting time and cost of rare disease diagnoses
is that it can miss crucial information in certain regions of the genome, like patterns of base pairs that are much longer than just 250 base pairs. It also can't perform "phasing," the process of ...