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A red-haired, 34-year-old Dutch woman has become the first woman in the world to have her compete DNA unraveled, genetic scientists at Leiden University Medical Centre announced on Monday.
Publications
- Paired end sequencing with the FLX
- Mapping translocation breakpoints by next generation sequencing
- The impact of recombination on nucleotide substitutions
- Single-base resolution maps of the epigenome in Arabidopsis
- Imaging the sequence of DNA
- Matching tumors to drugs
- 454 sequencing in India
- Oxford NanoLabs is now Oxford Nanopore
- Pacific Biosciences acquires Li-Cor's sequencing technology
New research suggest that the Siberian woolly mammoth lived in two distinct clans. Scientists are trying to determine why the groups appeared to live in the same region but went extinct at two different times.
Publications
- EagleView: a new genome assembly viewer
- A genome-wide view of spontaneous mutations in yeast
- Common species in distant soils
- Invitrogen acquires Applied Biosystems Inc
- Mars, USDA, and IBM to sequence the cocoa genome
- Personalized vitamin supplements
- Latest developments in individualised medicine and diagnosis
- Mexican scientists sequence ancient corn landraces
- Individual human genomes change with age
The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has developed and applied a new protocol to sequence ancient mammalian samples.
Publications
- RNA-seq to assess array technologies
- Relationships among different histone modifications and gene expression
- Synamatix joins Illumina Connect Program
- Illumina appoints Mostafa Ronaghi as Senior VP and CTO
- ISMB 2008 talks highlight on bioinformatics
- Roche Diagnostics supports Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
- Pacific Biosciences gets $100 million funding
- India to sequence buffalo genome
The axolotl salamander is one of the few vertebrates that can regenerate entire limbs as an adult. Scientists are now sequencing parts of its unusually large genome in order to understand the genetic basis for this ability.
Publications
- Researchers propose model for in silico ChIP sequencing
- DNA methylation analysis by digital PCR
- Discovery of small noncoding RNA using pyrosequencing technology
- Harvard grants exclusive rights to Oxford Nanopore to develop nanopore technology
- Genome of simplest animal reveals complex capabilities
- Applied Biosystems develops new RNA analysis solutions tool
- Researchers map transcription-factor binding sites to human cells
- NHGRI awarded more than $20 million in grants
Scientists have sequenced Salinispora tropica, a species of ocean bacteria. S. tropica produces compounds such as salinosporamide A, which has shown promise in the treatment of bone marrow cancer and solid tumours.
Publications
- Errors in data reads from novel sequencing technologies
- Decoding bacterial genome using short read technology
- Genome-wide identification of in vivo protein-DNA binding sites from ChIP-Seq data
- GeneWorks partners with Synamatix to initiate sequencing of microbial genomes
- Scientists to map the complex genetic code of wheat
- Pacific Biosciences' immense potential attracts employees
- ZS Genetics tests its $100K genome sequencing platform
Chinese scientists have completed the first genome draft map of the giant panda which may aid efforts to protect this endangered species.
Publications
- Shotgun sequencing in non-invasive diagnosis of fetal aneuploidy
- Rapid whole-genome mutational profiling
- Exciting new approaches to next-generation sequencing
- Nanopores: The new revolution in DNA sequencing?
- Researchers identify 26 genes associated with lung cancer
- MIT researchers discover alternative splicing almost universal in human genes
Genomic DNA sequencing of tumour and normal skin cells obtained from a single patient has revealed acquired mutations in ten genes.
Publications
- The HuRef Genome Browser now available online
- Scientists sequence genome of extinct woolly-mammoth
- Using quality scores to map short sequence reads
- Scientists sequence genome of Chinese, African men at fraction of previous cost
- ZS Genetics to offer complete genome mapping tool at reduced cost
- Researchers analyse Pythium ultimum transcriptome using Sanger and Pyrosequencing methods
- Atypical cyanobacteria poses questions about ocean ecosystem
