Next Generation Sequencing: Current realities in cancer biology
16 February 2011 | By Ross Sibson, Director of Research, Applied Cancer Biology Group, University of Liverpool
The rate of progress in molecular cell biological sciences has become dramatic. This is fuelled in part by developments in technology, none more so than in the field of nucleic acid sequencing. So-called Next Generation Sequencing Platforms promise to revolutionise our understanding of the importance of genetic differences on an…