Xin Zhou

Paving the way to large-scale biodiversity research: Xin Zhou discusses PCR-free metabarcoding

‘Metabarcoding’ facilitates high-throughput taxon identification and has great potential to increase the acquisition of biodiversity data.

Automated DNA sequencing output

Ubiquitous clinical sequencing: Matthew Bainbridge talks about finding rare disease mutations

Connecting genomic sequences with clinical phenotypes can help identify mutations associated with rare conditions.

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Getting a GRIP: Adam Ewing discusses gene retrocopy insertion polymorphisms

Adam Ewing, from David Haussler’s lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on their recent work studying gene retrocopy insertion polymorphisms.