Faster, better, cheaper: A new method to generate extended data for genome assemblies
Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 09:40
in Biology & Nature
Long range genetic data is an invaluable source for plant, crop and animal genetic research. Sequencing genomes requires breaking them into small manageable pieces and then working out how they go back together - similar to a million or billion piece jigsaw puzzle. To do this, a combination of short range (a jigsaw piece) and long range (tells you about the nearby pieces) sequence data is needed.