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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.

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...

schatzlab.cshl.edu - Monitoring the progress of DNA molecules through a membrane pore has been postulated as a method for sequencing DNA for several decades. Recently, a nanopore-based sequencing instrument, the Oxford Nanopore MinION, has become available that we used...

github.com - Long-read sequencing technologies have become increasingly popular in genome projects due to their strengths in resolving complex genomic regions. As a leading model organism with small genome size and great biotechnological importance, the budding...