In the past two years, methods to sequence DNA faster and cheaper gave scientists the ability to "bring sequencing back into the lab," says Neil Hall, professor of Genomics at the University of Liverpool, and to ask genome-wide questions that would have been too expensive and time consuming using traditional Sanger sequencing at one of the large sequencing centers worldwide.
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