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.
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.
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.


