Advances in portable DNA analysis bring us closer to a future with medical tricorders
Monday, July 11, 2016 - 05:31
in Mathematics & Economics
An international team of scientists led by Dr Niranjan Nagarajan, from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), has released an updated version of GraphMap, a software specifically designed to analyse data from nanopore sequencing, which has been lauded for its potential to revolutionise genomics in being rapid, cheap and portable, and able to provide results in real-time. Reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the updated software makes more than 90% of the information coming out of an Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) system usable.