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Re:A farewell to bioinformatics (2012) by njbooher on Sunday January 27, 2013 @11:31AM (#5124692)
Repeats aren't necessarily junk (e.g. TAL Effectors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAL_effector#DNA_recognition). Resolving them requires long reads. PacBio is currently of interest as an alternative to Sanger sequencing for this, although the error rate of PacBio reads is a bit of an issue.
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Re:A farewell to bioinformatics (2012) by apathy on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @08:52PM (#5142908)
pacbio is dead, they just don't know it yet. BGI (or somebody, doesn't matter, BGI is just the obvious candidate) would need to buy 50 SMART sequencers a year just for PacBio to stay in business. That seems unlikely given the lower cost and complexity of Illumina and Life sequencers
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