Kew Scientists use the MinION to Sequence DNA on a Welsh Mountainside (IMAGE)

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Kew Scientists use the MinION to Sequence DNA on a Welsh Mountainside

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The field identification of two different white flowers Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea was achieved by sequencing random parts of the plants' genomes and comparing their new data to a database of reference genome sequences.

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Alex Papadopolous

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