Rapid advances in nanopore technologies for sequencing single long DNA and RNA
molecules have led to substantial improvements in accuracy, read length and throughput …

Long-read technologies are overcoming early limitations in accuracy and throughput,
broadening their application domains in genomics. Dedicated analysis tools that take into …

Viral whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provides critical insight into the transmission and
evolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Long-read …

Forty years ago the advent of Sanger sequencing was revolutionary as it allowed complete
genome sequences to be deciphered for the first time. A second revolution came when next …

This review provides a state-of-the-art description of the performance of Sanger cycle
sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene for routine identification of bacteria in the clinical …

We report the sequencing and assembly of a reference genome for the human GM12878
Utah/Ceph cell line using the MinION (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) nanopore …

Nanopore DNA strand sequencing has emerged as a competitive, portable technology.
Reads exceeding 150 kilobases have been achieved, as have in-field detection and …

Abstract The recent Ebola and Zika epidemics demonstrate the need for the continuous
surveillance, rapid diagnosis and real-time tracking of emerging infectious diseases. Fast …

Since the completion of the human genome project in 2003, extraordinary progress has
been made in genome sequencing technologies, which has led to a decreased cost per …

Short-read, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods have yielded numerous important
insights into microbial ecology and function. Yet, in many instances short-read HTS …