How to Study a Complex Microbial World – Part 3: Genes to Genomes
In part 1 of this series, author talked about what DNA sequencing is, and why it’s an important tool. In part 2, he explained some of the technologies that scientists are currently using to actually “read” the letters of DNA sequences from organisms. In this final piece, he explains how we go from reads of a sequencer, to understanding something about the organisms in the sample sequenced. Image credit: "Skin Microbiome20169-300" by Darryl Leja, NHGRI - http://www.genome.gov/dmd/img.cfm?node=Photos/Graphics&id=85320. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skin_Microbiome20169-300.jpg#/media/File:Skin_Microbiome20169-300.jpg
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