415 Tucker Hall and Townsend Hall
Saturday, March 8, 2014
University of Missouri
Read more: Professional Development Teacher Workshop, 3/8/2014
Yaya Cui, an investigator in plant sciences at the Bond Life Sciences Center examines data on fast neuron soybean mutants that are represented on the SoyKB database.
The most puzzling scientific mysteries may be solved at the same machine you’re likely reading this sentence.
Read more: SoyKB: Leading the convergence of wet and dry science in the era of Big Data
Even though next-generation sequencing (NGS) — with millions or billions of DNA nucleotides sequenced in parallel — is much less costly compared to first-generation sequencing, it still remains too expensive for many labs. NGS platform start-up costs can easily surpass hundreds of thousands of dollars, and individual sequencing reactions can cost thousands per genome.
Read more: SoyKB and iPlant streamline complex bioinformatics analysis