In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

Genome geniuses among Wellcome Sanger Institute scientists and overseas collaborators have developed Phylo-Plex - a new computational method to allow cost-effective and scalable DNA sequencing of ...