The private sector has moved the fastest to use new approaches, but academic groups, including a Chinese group called BGI that has
more sequencing capability than any other group in the world, are catching up.
«We have really only identified and fully described 100,000 of them, though, and new
DNA sequencing capabilities show us that many, many specimens in research collections are uncharacterized.
She currently orchestrates the Center's efforts to explore massively parallel sequencing technologies and to transition them into
production sequencing capabilities and new applications.
The advent of a miniaturised DNA sequencing device with a high - throughput
contextual sequencing capability embodies the next generation of large scale sequencing tools.
Using Sandia's
genome sequencing capabilities, Hudson and colleagues Robert Meagher and Kelly Williams, along with former postdoctoral employee Zach Bent, identified several mechanisms that bacteria use to share genes and expand their antibiotic resistance.