Big data and human height: Scientists develop algorithm to boost biobank data retrieval and analysis

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...
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A New Way to Map Human DNA: Solving the Genome Puzzle

New genome sequencing algorithm boosts human genome completeness by 20%, improving variant detection and advancing personalized medicine.

Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
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Local ancestry inference method could improve accuracy of genetic testing and patient diagnoses

Researchers at Texas Children's Neurological Research Institute (NRI) and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a powerful new tool within the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) to sharpen the ...