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Personal genomes: Standard and pores

Could the next generation of genetic sequencing machines be built from a collection of minuscule holes? Katharine Sanderson reports.

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Sanderson, K. Personal genomes: Standard and pores. Nature 456, 23–25 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456023a

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