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Next-Gen Sequencing: Enough for a Miniseries?

May 22, 2007

MIT's Technology Review follows up its first article on 454's sequencing technology with a second installment. Part II goes into the collaboration of 454 with the Max Planck Institute to sequence a 1-million-base-pair portion of the Neanderthal genome, as well as other practical medical applications such as single molecule sequencing to discover cancer mutations and George Church's Personal Genome Project.

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