Background: High-throughput sequencing technologies, such as the Illumina Genome Analyzer, are powerful new tools for investigating a wide range of biological and medical question...
James H. Bullard, Elizabeth Purdom, Kasper D. Hans...
Background: Comparative analysis of gene expression profiling of multiple biological categories, such as different species of organisms or different kinds of tissue, promises to e...
Wensheng Zhang, Andrea Edwards, Wei Fan, Dongxiao ...
Background: Both somatic copy number alterations (CNAs) and germline copy number variants (CNVs) that are prevalent in healthy individuals can appear as recurrent changes in compa...
Background: Copy number variations (CNVs) and polymorphisms (CNPs) have only recently gained the genetic community's attention. Conservative estimates have shown that CNVs an...
Louis-Philippe Lemieux Perreault, Gregor U. Andelf...
Background: Pathogen diagnostic assays based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology provide high sensitivity and specificity. However, the design of these diagnostic assays...
Ravi Vijaya Satya, Kamal Kumar, Nela Zavaljevski, ...