The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of ...

A poor man's approach to genotyping for research and high-throughput diagnostics. Genotyping with microsatellite markers was first described by Litt and Luty, and is now a widely used method in ...

In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help in such cases.

UV-ready real-time PCR systems, together with alternative fluorescent dyes, facilitate sensitive and reliable thermal-shift ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a ...

KAT is a suite of tools that analyse jellyfish hashes or sequence files (fasta or fastq) using kmer counts. The following tools are currently available in KAT: kmer: Produces a k-mer hash containing ...