Solving puzzles without a picture: New algorithm assembles chromosomes from next generation sequencing data
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
One of the most difficult problems in the field of genomics is assembling short "reads" of DNA into complete chromosomes. Now an interdisciplinary group of genome and computer scientists has solved this problem, creating an algorithm that can rapidly create "virtual chromosomes" with no prior information about how the genome is organized.