A new generation of non-Sanger-based sequencing technologies has delivered on its promise of sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, thereby enabling impressive scientific achievements and novel biological applications. However, before stepping into the limelight, next-generation sequencing had to overcome the inertia of a field that relied on Sanger-sequencing for 30 years.
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Acknowledgements
I thank W. Miller and N. Wittekindt for suggestions on the manuscript. The author is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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Stephan C. Schuster is at Pennsylvania State University, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, 310 Wartik Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. scs@bx.psu.edu
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