Over the last decade, technological advances have made DNA sequencing a routine and cost-effective method in many fields of life sciences research. The dominant technology today generates billions of short sequences called “reads” consisting of 75-250 bases. Dr. Birol's lab builds high throughput analysis methods to process large volumes of reads in diverse DNA sequencing projects, from high profile international cancer genome mapping initiatives to the generation of reference genomes of non-model species.
Short read sequencing
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