Closing the gaps in the human genome

Monday, June 1, 2009 - 18:49 in Biology & Nature

Sequence gaps in human chromosome 15 have been closed by the application of 454 technology. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology have described a simple and scalable method for finishing non-structural gaps in genome assemblies.

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