In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Miami University’s Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics (CBFG) has become one of the first institutions in the region to acquire the PacBio VEGA Benchtop System — a cutting-edge DNA ...

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Advances in DNA sequencing technology help forensic biologists identify suspects where traditional DNA profiling has failed, ...

Metagenomics relies on the use of software programs called assemblers, which can reconstruct tens of thousands of individual ...