Sentences with phrase «technique of shotgun»

He pioneered a technique of shotgun DNA sequencing via computers that helped complete the human genome five years ahead of schedule.

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The contractor in question, the Virginia - based US Corrections Special Operations Group (US C - SOG), has been stationed at Rikers Island since May, training the jail's nearly 200 Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers in tactical techniques, including the use of Tasers and Kel - Tec shotguns loaded with rubber «less lethal» ammunition.

The researchers used the so - called shotgun sequencing technique: splintering the DNA in the genetic makeup of specially inbred mosquitoes then painstakingly reassembling it.

The human genome is another matter entirely, of course: at 3 billion base pairs instead of a couple million, it is too large to be sequenced all at once by Venter's shotgun technique.

As when he worked on the human genome, Venter is relying on a radical technique called shotgun sequencing: He chops up vast amounts of DNA into tiny pieces and then uses sophisticated computer analyzers to piece them back together into intelligible genes and chromosomes.

In 1995, he invented a new «shotgun» technique for sequencing DNA and read the full genome of a bacterium while the establishment was still dismissing the technique as unworkable.

The investigators used a technique called bottom - up proteomics (sometimes called shotgun proteomics) to reveal which proteins of each species were present in the hybrid flies.

In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), a not - for - profit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free - living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole - genome «shotgun» technique.

We generated the complete sequence of the genome by the whole genome shotgun method, and analysed it with a combination of automatic and manual bioinformatic techniques.