With its Direct Labeling and Staining (DLS) chemistry, currently available to early-access users, Bionano is pushing forward with more contiguous genome maps.
At PAG, researchers from the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome Laboratory outlined sequencing and assembly strategies for phase 1 of the VGP G10K.
The technology could analyze, in one assay, all structural variants known to be diagnostic and prognostic for blood cancers, potentially replacing serial FISH testing.
By combining optical mapping with DNA sequencing, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers examined structural variation that occurs in multiple myeloma tumors.
A University of Wisconsin at Madison-led team has used single-molecule optical mapping to unearth structural changes in two human tumors, en route to more extensive analyses of cancer samples using a related single-molecule approach currently under development.
With H3Africa, Charles Rotimi has been working to bolster the representation of African participants and African researchers in genomics, Newsweek reports.
