They were analyzed with advanced versions of the DNA-sequencing machines used to map DNA in the Human Genome Project.
Their favourite activity is to ask each other questions about practical research problems, from DNA-sequencing techniques to statistical tricks.
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Center officials previously have said that once they found a home, their facility would include about 130 DNA-sequencing machines.
He did have a meltdown or two, including Visible Genetics, a company that made DNA-sequencing kits used to analyze genes linked to disease.
Half of the 1, 400 DNA-sequencing machines in the world reside at just 20 big academic and government research centers, according to Goldman Sachs.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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He used a new DNA-sequencing technique called whole-genome shotgunning that he and a colleague, Hamilton Smith, had invented, and patented a good tranche of human genes on the way.
The microbiome, made much easier to study by new DNA-sequencing technology (which lets you distinguish between bugs without having to grow them on Petri dishes), is thus a trendy area of science.
Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
But a grassroots project called the Bioweathermap was launched a year ago to discover and track the worldwide movements of these organisms using high-speed DNA sequencing of the biological residue on paper currency, one of the most oft-handled and well-traveled of objects.
He hopes that new high-speed DNA sequencing machines will help fix that issue.
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The results of large-scale DNA sequencing studies of cancer genomes are very clear.
Calvin College Developmental Cell Biologist Steve Matheson points to an interesting series of papers highlighting the importance of new rapid-fire DNA sequencing technologies for the study of evolution.
The long-awaited era of single-molecule DNA sequencing will begin in earnest with new machines from companies like Pacific Biosciences, and with a bit of luck this will improve the speed at which we can recognise unknown bugs.
But I do wonder how easy it will be to get a research-level DNA sequence if sequencing manages to get on the medical reimbursement gravy train.
Geneticist Elizabeth Worthey worked on the first-ever treatment of a patient based on DNA sequencing, helping doctors decide to give a bone marrow transplant to a 6-year-old boy who had suffered through more than a hundred operations.
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Earlier today, a study in Science Translational Medicine proposed that DNA sequencing could become a standard first-choice test for infants in neonatal intensive care units, because a combination of new software and hardware could allow doctors to get results in just 50 hours, answering questions about what is making a baby sick far faster when time is of the essence.
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Using DNA sequencing, Rothberg says, doctors in the not-too-distant future will finger genetic weak spots in tumors and treat cancer patients with customized drugs. (This is already happening at some cancer centers.) Kids born with rare diseases will get large portions of their genome decoded to pinpoint the cause, eliminating guesswork and misdiagnoses.
So far, the cost of synthesizing and sequencing such very long strands of data-rich DNA as from the book remains too high to make the technique a practical commercial data-storage medium for the foreseeable future.
Using automated sequencing machines from Perkin-Elmer, DeCode sequenced the DNA from the healthy and the sick to locate the gene.
Life, which has managed only single-digit revenue growth despite the success of its Ion Torrent DNA sequencing division, has been on the auction block since January, when it announced it was exploring strategic options.
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Patsalis of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics said his team is developing a noninvasive method to test for Down syndrome by comparing fetal DNA to the mother's using standard lab equipment, instead of pricey gene-sequencing gear.
And the Autism Sequencing Consortium hopes to collect DNA samples from 20, 000 subjects for genome-wide association studies, and identify 100 more genes linked to autism in the next three years.
"It was really a new way of sequencing DNA." Hyseq could find rare genes faster than most of its competitors--and it did, patenting more full-length gene sequences than just about anyone.
As a check, the researchers sequenced the DNA from some of the flourishing spots (a Mycoplasma genome is the sort of thing a modern sequencing set-up can knock off before its morning coffee).
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