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New Tools Highlight Long-Read Sequencing Platforms' Ability to Call Structural Variants

May 01, 2018
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Monica Heger
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SAN FRANCISCO (GenomeWeb) – Longer sequencing reads are better at detecting structural variants than shorter reads, and a new study illustrates why that is and identifies thousands of novel variants from well-characterized samples.

In addition, the study, published this week in Nature Methods, identifies differences between Pacific Biosciences' and Oxford Nanopore Technologies' sequencing platforms.

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