The world’s first complete chromosome sequence at #AGBT19

The full x-chromosome map

NGHRI’s Dr. Adam Phillippy presents a remarkable dataset – the telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome When the completion of the Human Genome Project was announced on June 6, 2002, President Bill Clinton said the following: We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without … Read more

BioNano Genomics, OpGen and Copy Number Variation

Image courtesy Flickr user <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/48677280@N00/”>karen2754</a>.

A few weeks ago this paper appeared in Nature Biotechnology, “Genome mapping on nanochannel arrays for structural variation analysis and sequence assembly”. It was the first publication of a startup company in San Diego called BioNano Genomics.

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