Case Study

FISHing through the data: Exploiting the power of genomics

FISHing through the data: Exploiting the power of genomics

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the challenge Cytocell's acquisition of a 225,000 BAC (bacterial artifi cial chromosome) collection created an exciting opportunity for the company, allowing it to expand its FISH (fl uorescence in situ hybridization) portfolio and target most of the clinically important sequences in the human genome. However, this came with a challenge. While the BAC probes were labelled and indexed, they were not mapped against the human reference genome, meani

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