Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and George Washington University (GWU) have developed a method to rapidly identify pathogenic species and strains causing illnesses, such as pneumonia, that could ...
Jul 10, 2013
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Computer scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have released a major upgrade of Samtools, one of the most popular next-generation sequence analysis tools. The revised Samtools 1.0 enables researchers to easily ...
Aug 15, 2014
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Investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed an analysis "pipeline" that slashes the time it takes to search a person's genome for disease-causing variations from weeks to hours. An article describing the ...
Jan 30, 2015
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A multicenter collaboration has produced the first computational model for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma that predicts an individual's personalized prognosis based on their tumor genomics and treatments. The collaboration ...
Jan 9, 2024
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Uncovering rare susceptibility variants that contribute to the causes of complex diseases requires large sample sizes and massively parallel sequencing technologies. These sample sizes, often made up of exome and genome data ...
Jun 30, 2017
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The pandemic has enabled us to study the details of how evolution happens—in real time. Scientists have generated more than two million genome sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, allowing us to dissect the minutiae of evolutionary ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health have developed a ...
May 21, 2024
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I had my complete genome sequenced a few years ago – all six billion base pairs of it. And rather than keeping it to myself, I became the first person in the world to make it publicly available by donating it to the Personal ...
Sep 13, 2017
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A new open source, cloud-based tool called IDseq can rapidly detect, identify and track emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. It can identify pathogens before there is an available complete genome sequence, and can therefore ...
Oct 15, 2020
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Frederick Sanger, who died recently at the age of 95, won two Nobel prizes in chemistry for his methods for sequencing proteins and DNA. Proteins were of more direct interest to many people because many disease-causing mutations ...
Dec 4, 2013
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