Research advances emerging DNA sequencing technology
PICTURE: Dr. Moon Kim, the distinguished professor of Louis Beecherl Jr. at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and other researchers developed a nanopore sequencing platform that is useful for the ... view More Photo credit: The University of Texas at Dallas Nanopore technology holds great promise in enabling the development of small, portable, and inexpensive devices that can be used to sequence DNA in real time. One of the challenges, however, was making the technology more accurate.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have come closer to this goal by developing a nanopore sequencing platform that can, for the first time, detect the presence of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA and RNA. The study was published online on February 11th and is on the back of the April print edition of Electrophoresis magazine.
"By demonstrating the presence of nucleobases, our platform can help improve the sensi