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Magnetic sequencing

Single-molecule DNA sequencing takes an important step in a surprising new direction with a sequence-detection method based on magnetic tweezers.

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Figure 1: Principle of sequencing by ligation.

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Linnarsson, S. Magnetic sequencing. Nat Methods 9, 339–341 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1934

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