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And a Good Time Was Had by All

Nov 28, 2007

PhD student Sibon Li reports on the Genome Informatics meeting, held earlier this month at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. If you missed the event, Li provides a good roundup of the topics of interest -- in particular, assembly and analysis methods for next-gen sequencers got plenty of attention.

 

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