Beyond assembly: the increasing flexibility of single-molecule sequencing technology.

ABSTRACT: The maturation of high-throughput short-read sequencing technology over the past two decades has shaped the way genomes are studied. Recently, single-molecule, long-read sequencing has emerged as an essential tool in deciphering genome structure and function, including filling gaps in the human reference genome, measuring the epigenome and characterizing splicing variants in the transcriptome. With recent technological developments, these single-molecule technologies have moved beyond genome assembly and are being used in a variety of ways, including to selectively sequence specific loci with long reads, measure chromatin state and protein-DNA binding in order to investigate the dynamics of gene regulation, and rapidly determine copy number variation. These increasingly flexible uses of si

SUBMITTER: Hook PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10169143 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature