Scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions used complementary approaches that integrate exome sequencing and evolutionary action machine learning to identify protein ...

Sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response triggered by infection, is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality 1. Despite advancements in sepsis diagnosis and treatment over the past few ...

The Proton Semiconductor Sequencer from Ion Torrent Systems Inc., a new DNA sequencing machine and chip designed to sequence the entire human genome in about eight hours, is displayed at the Life ...

In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

The microarray and single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Differential expression analysis ...

The technique could be used to offer people with muscular dystrophy, or a related neuromuscular condition, a more accurate prognosis, which would enable them to make more informed choices on life ...

This ultra-fast sequencing machine, which hit the market last year, is only sold in groups of 10 — a system capable of sequencing 18,000 human genomes a year at just $1,000 to $1,500 per genome.

Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have developed a new machine learning method called SAVANA that significantly reduces sequencing errors for cancer genomes. Long-read ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a severe autoimmune disease with complex genetic causes. Some genetic contributors have been identified, but others remain unknown, which has impeded development of ...