Flatulence, constipation and diarrhoea are some of the many intestinal problems that we have to deal with. These can be annoying and the cause is often unclear. BaseClear spin-off MyMicroZoo now intends to change this by mapping the inhabitants of …
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PacBio sequencing is often used for sequencing complete microbial genomes. The long reads offer a clear added value to the shorter Illumina reads. Since the sequencing errors on the PacBio platform are basically unbiased, high quality assemblies can be made …
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Next-Generation sequencing (NGS) is a relative new technology and has provided us with a series of machines and protocols capable of changing the practice for microbial diagnostics of infectious disease. For instance it can be used to determine the presence …
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DNA barcoding is in short the method used to identify species based on (a small part of) their DNA and to use these DNA sequences to build the tree of life. Although efforts to complete the barcoding of all species …
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Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) gives many laboratories access to high-throughput bacterial genomic research. The number of bacterial genomes sequenced is vertiginously increasing. Yet the fraction of completely closed, single contig assemblies is extremely small compared to the number of generated draft …
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