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Sequencing news

Sat, 2010-02-27 10:04 -- John Hawks

Daniel MacArthur reports from the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meetings are full of little snippets of next-generation sequencing news; good if you're interested but don't follow the developments closely: "Belated news from AGBT", "Pacific Biosciences introduces new third-generation sequencing instrument at AGBT".

UPDATE (2010-02-28): And "New players in sequencing debut at AGBT".

If that's true, and if it can be done at scale, it is extraordinarily cool: reads of unlimited length would profoundly transform genomics

Tags: 
sequencing
biotech

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