In Next-Gen Sequencing, Making Those Short Reads Useful

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In Next-Gen Sequencing, Making Those Short Reads Useful

May 30, 2007

In today's PLoS ONE, researchers led by Andreas Sundquist describe a method called Short Read Assembly Protocol that they say will lead to inexpensive de novo sequencing of mammalian genomes.

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