Scientists from Applied Biosystems First to Sequence Entire Human Genome in Single Run at 17-fold Coverage

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced that its research and development scientists used human disease samples from the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center to sequence an entire human genome in a single run at 17-fold coverage using the SOLiD 3 System, the only next-generation advanced genomic analysis platform to achieve this milestone to date. Data from these unprecedented throughput and sequence coverage projects was presented by the HGSC today at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Biology of Genomes meeting in New York.

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