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There was a lot of buzz about Oxford Nanopore Technologies® is developing the GridION™ system and miniaturised MinION™ device. These are a new generation of electronic molecular analysis system for use in scientific research,...

Researchers have uncovered essential information in the fight against drug resistance in worms.

Ancient DNA study of Serbian boy!!!

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140422/ncomms4657/full/ncomms4657.html

Floating Sequencing lab

Smaller Exome datasets were found to be worse performer than those from larger datasets (WGS)

Genome sequencing, analysis and expression of Alien genome. Note: This image/cartoon is create only for fun. It has nothing to do with any scientific findings.

www.cs.helsinki.fi - LoRMA is a tool for correcting sequencing errors in long reads such those produced by Pacific Biosciences sequencing machines. Publication: L. Salmela, R. Walve, E. Rivals, and E. Ukkonen: Accurate selfcorrection of errors in long reads using de...

github.com - GRASS (GeneRic ASsembly Scaffolder)-a novel algorithm for scaffolding second-generation sequencing assemblies capable of using diverse information sources. GRASS offers a mixed-integer programming formulation of the contig scaffolding problem, which...

github.com - Jabba is a hybrid error correction tool to correct third generation (PacBio / ONT) sequencing data, using second generation (Illumina) data. Input Jabba takes as input a concatenated de Bruijn graph and a set of sequences: the de Bruijn graph...