Bio-IT World April 20, 2022
Long-read DNA sequencing can be done at ever-increasing speeds and with significantly fewer errors than even a year or two ago, at last bringing the technology to the clinic where it can shorten the wait time for a diagnosis from weeks to hours. In fact, scientists at Stanford have used the technique in a “lighthearted competition” with their counterparts utilizing Illumina machines at Rady Children’s Hospital that have earned both teams honors by Guinness World Records, according to Euan Ashley, professor of medicine, genetics and biomedical data science at Stanford.
In the most recent record-breaking feat, the Stanford squad upped the ante by sequencing a patient’s genome in a snappy five hours and two minutes on a PromethION platform...
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