Thursday, July 12, 2012

Complete Genomics Goes Long

In Nature this week (as an open access article!) is a report from Complete Genomics and collaborators describing CG's new "Long Fragment Read" (LFR) technology for generating long range sequence information and haplotypes.  Technically, there is a lot of cool stuff -- but excitement for many (such as myself) must be balanced against CG's business model of sequencing only human genomes