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Techniques to save the sea – your latest issue of BioTechniques

Written by Ebony Torrington (Managing Editor)

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In this issue you can expect a novel method using a metagenomics approach to resolve the contaminated genome of an Ascomycete, a method for non-destructive extraction of DNA from preserved tissues as well as validation of reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR.  

Technology News

Techniques to save the sea 

Expert Opinion

Democratizing bioinformatics through easily accessible software platforms for non-experts in the field 

Reports

A high-quality fungal genome assembly resolved from a sample accidentally contaminated by multiple taxa 

Selection and validation of reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR in Cymbidium sinense 

Benchmark

Non-destructive extraction of DNA from preserved tissues in medical collections 

Review

Magnetic tweezers: development and use in single-molecule research 

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