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Image depicts bacterial fragments being pieced together to form whole genomes. Bishara et al. report an approach that assembles short barcoded reads and generates high-quality draft microbial genomes (p 1067). Image credit: Ryan Charles Leung Brewster and Eli L. Moss. Credit corrected online 15 November 2018.
The work of the 2018 Nobel Prize Chemistry awardees is remarkable not only for its influence on modern biotech, but also for the rapidity with which it translated to commercial products.
An integrative computational approach leverages data from model systems and human genome-wide studies to predict genes that have a functional role in disease.