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Researcher Reports Progress in Metagenomic Sequencing for Pathogen ID Using MiSeq, MinIon

May 07, 2015
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Madeleine Johnson
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — At the Clinical Virology Symposium in Daytona Beach, Florida last week there was a buzz among attendees about point-of-care nucleic acid testing and multiplex syndromic panels. But, amid all the discussion of PCR-based molecular diagnostics, a presentation on unbiased metagenomic sequencing stood out.

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