Saturday, February 07, 2015

Genome Biology

New software analyzes human genomes for disease-causing variations in 90 minutes
February 6, 2015

Genome with mutation (credit: NIH) 
May empower population-scale genomic analysis
Investigators at Nationwide Children’s Hospital say they have developed an optimized analysis “pipeline” that slashes the time it takes to search a person’s genome for disease-causing variations from weeks to hours. An open-access preview article describing the ultra-fast, highly scalable software was published in the latest issue of Genome Biology. “It took around 13 years … more…

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