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Oct 15, 2007

In a paper published online yesterday in Nature Methods, senior author Richard Gibbs and collaborators at Baylor and NimbleGen present a direct-selection technique for DNA sequences that does not require using PCR. The work took place using NimbleGen arrays and a 454 sequencer. "We combined these new developments to enable the efficient targeted capture and sequencing of specific DNA sequences from complex genomes to provide an alternative to PCR-based methods," the authors write.

 

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