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Faster human genome sequencing

Nature Biotechnology volume 27, pages 820–821 (2009)Cite this article

Advances in parallelization allow a human genome to be sequenced using single-molecule technology.

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Figure 1: Single-molecule genome sequencing.

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  1. Yingrui Li and Jun Wang are at the Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,

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  2. Jun Wang is in the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,

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Li, Y., Wang, J. Faster human genome sequencing. Nat Biotechnol 27, 820–821 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0909-820

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