While there are many advantages to automating certain workflows in the lab, a lot of thought must be put into when and where automation can be best used

Nicholas Navin, PhD, associate professor at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, elaborates on the promise of single-cell sequencing as an innovative, noninvasive tool for research and clinical use.

In forensic work, the smallest detail can make the difference in solving a crime. Those details can come from genetic evidence, such as DNA. Collecting the DNA is one thing, analyzing it is another.

CHOP researchers: drawing on electronic medical data may offer more accurate results

Next-generation (NGS) sequencing brings scalability and sensitivity to diagnostics in ways that traditional DNA analysis could not

Spoiler alert: it’s not woolly mammoth OR giant ground sloth

RNA sequencing could help predict future outbreaks

Zhuoyi Huang, PhD, postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Dr. Fuli Yu, at the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, talks to contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, PhD, about the work they have been doing to address the computational challenges associated with analysis of high throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) data.

Key laboratories worldwide contribute to collaboration.

Proposed NGS quality control pipeline will reduce costs and lower turnaround times for common genetic tests.