The Source of the Data Flood: Sequencing Technologies
Abstract
Where does this huge amount of data come from? What are the costs of producing it? The answers to
these questions lie in the impressive development of sequencing technologies, which have opened up
many research opportunities and challenges, some of which are described in this issue. DNA
sequencing is the process of “reading” a DNA fragment (referred to as a “read”) and determining the
exact order of DNA bases (the four possible nucleotides, that are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and
Thymine) that compose a given DNA strand. Research in biology and medicine has been
revolutionised and accelerated by the advances of DNA and even RNA sequencing biotechnologies.
Domains
Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM]
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