NGS

Next-generation sequencing: platforms, chemistry, throughput and the analysis tools that follow the run.

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Switching off 20000 Genes to Identify the Essential Ones

Scientists from the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre have identified the minimum set of human genes necessary for survival. Using the CRISPR technology, the researchers switched...

Bioengineering

Nanopore Technology Can Identify Pathogen Types

Reseachers from Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and Boston University have developed a nanopore that identifies pathogens from their genomic characteristics. The instrument senses single molecules and detects...

Basic Research

A New Nanopore Sequencer with Graphene Technology

Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed a new nanopore sequencing method based on graphene nanoribbons that detects double and single stranded DNA in...

Basic Research

The Genome Analysis Center Uses Fastest Processor Ever

  The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) will use Edico Genome´s DRAGEN, the world´s first processor specifically designed to analyze DNA sequences. DRAGEN reduces next generation sequencing...

Bioinformatics

Pacific Biosciences Launches the Most Accurate Sequencer for Long Reads

Pacific Biosciences has launched a new sequencer, the Sequel System, with improved throughput and scalability and lower costs and footprint respect to its predecessor, the PacBio®...

Equipment
Nanopore proteins

Nanopores Found Useful in Detecting Single Molecule Movements

Nanopore’s are proving to be useful for more than just DNA sequencing. The pico sized wonder’s have shown that they can even identify single molecular...

Biotechnology

Illumina Announces a Consortium to Create a 750000 SNPs Microarray

Illumina presented his PopArray Consortium at the Individualizing Medicine Conference at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minessota. The initiative aims to collect genomic data from the...

Biomedicine
Liquid Viscosity DNA

Nanopore Sequencing Improved Using Viscous Solution

Swiss researches at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne are reporting on success in improving errors rates in nanopore sequencing using high viscosity liquids and slowing...

NGS