lobSTR Algorithm Rolls DNA Fingerprinting into 21st Century

Friday, April 27, 2012 - 16:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Whitehead Institute researchers have created a three-step algorithm, lobSTR, that in one day accurately and simultaneously profiles more than 100,000 short tandem repeats (STRs) in one human genome sequence--a feat that previous systems could never complete.

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