What's a Knot -- and What's Not -- in Genomic Mapping
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 11:32
in Biology & Nature
Genome mapping complements DNA sequencing, offering insight into huge, intact molecules between 150,000 and 1 million base pairs in length. Obtaining measurements of such large segments is not without its challenges, but new research into the physics of nanochannel mapping published this week in the journal Biomicrofluidics, may help overcome a (literal) knot in the process and advance genome mapping technology.