What has high-throughput sequencing ever done for us? (original) (raw)

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This month's Genome Watch looks back over the past 10 years and highlights how the incredible advances in sequencing technologies have transformed research into microbial genomes.

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  1. Julian Parkhill is at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.,
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J.P. has received funding for conference travel and accommodation from Illumina Inc.

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Parkhill, J. What has high-throughput sequencing ever done for us?.Nat Rev Microbiol 11, 664–665 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro3112

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