Recent coronavirus outbreak brought the science of genomics into the center of world’s attention: genome of COVID-19 influences mode of…
Sequencing
the art of reading
Scientists found that around 580 million years ago, soil bacteria transferred their genes into early ancestors of algae and vascular…
International collaboration collected and investigated genomes of 6,400 individuals from Uganda. They correlated SNPs (single nucleotide polymophirms) and nearly two…
These are sequences that we don’t interrogate today because they are not in the human reference genome—so if they are…
Duplicated genes are hard differentiate, among human genes there are at least 75 partially “camouflaged” with their duplicates, but method…
The UK’s initiative to sequence 100 thousand genomes reached its goal after operating for five years and five months. Whole-genome…
Machine learning model have successfully detected mutations in genomes of patients with cancer diseases. Training dataset consisted of 41 thousand…
A new method, fragment size analysis, has helped to more precisely detect circulating tumor DNA in blood samples. Tumor cells…
Pediatric patients with diffuse midline gliomas have acquired a new tool: non-invasive liquid biopsy detecting essential variantions of H3F3A gene….
A new version of COSMIC (Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer) is available under https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic. 2018 v86 relase of the…