A new app for DNA sequencing analysis
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Could a new app – iGenomics – bring DNA sequencing analysis out of the lab and into your pocket – or even into space? A new technology hailed – in a nod to sci-fi – as the ‘world’s first DNA “tricorder”’ and developed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL; NY, USA) is promising to take DNA analysis out of the lab and into your pocket. The tech comes in the shape of an app – called iGenomics – which can run on iOS devices and pairs with Oxford Nanopore’s (UK) handheld DNA sequencer, MinION. The app comes after 8 years...
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