ribosome

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   by ribosome 15y ago

   10kbp reads would also be very useful for de novo assembly of larger genomes, particularly in repetitive regions. One company (PacBio) currently claims reads this long, but the error rate is around 15%.
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   by ribosome 15y ago

   Science Fiction: The article mentions cells that can "self lase" may eventually be developed. If they are, I wonder how well they'd work for neural interface. On the brain side, these cells could be used for output, with photo-diodes accept
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   by ribosome 15y ago

   A few tweets before, it's interesting that "Abbottabad had power for 6/24 hours" on the 28th.