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Volume 30 Issue 11, November 2012

Staircase inspired by a DNA spiral in the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre (Vancouver, BC, Canada). This issue brings together articles focused on DNA sequencing technology. Credit: © Nic Lehoux.

Editorial

  • High-throughput sequencing for clinical purposes faces technical and quality challenges, but it's worth it.

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News

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Profile

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News Feature

  • Which companies are leading the pack in terms of market share of the sequencing sector? Michael Eisenstein reports.

    • Michael Eisenstein
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Bioentrepreneur

  • Xencor's CEO provides advice for fledgling entrepreneurs in academia.

    • Bassil Dahiyat
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Correspondence

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Feature

  • DNA profiling is playing a growing role in solving crimes, identifying victims of natural and unnatural disasters and even tracking diplomats. Some forensic experts are looking to advances in genome technologies to gain further ground against criminals.

    • Caitlin Smith
    • Stephen Strauss
    • Laura DeFrancesco
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Patents

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News & Views

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News and Views Feature

  • High-throughput sequencing is being adopted to characterize microbial pathogens and track their evolution and spread.

    • Jacqueline Z-M Chan
    • Mark J Pallen
    • Chrystala Constantinidou
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Perspective

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Q&A

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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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Careers and Recruitment

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Focus

  • Performance gains and falling costs have fueled diverse applications of high-throughput DNA sequencing. This focus issue of Nature Biotechnology summarizes the current status of these technologies as applied to life sciences and medical research. Produced with support from Ion Torrent - by Life Technologies.

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