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- noun molecular biology the procedure of determining the order of
amino acids in thepolypeptide chain of aprotein (protein sequencing) or ofnucleotides in aDNA section comprising agene (gene sequencing) - verb Present participle of
sequence .
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Examples
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Still, the new Illumina machine offers a tantalizing glimpse at how fast and cheap DNA sequencing is becoming.
Illumina's Cheap New Gene Machine Matthew Herper 2010
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The plummeting price of DNA sequencing is as important to medicine as cheaper microprocessors is to technology, because understanding how genes interact to cause disease will require comparing the DNA sequences of hundreds or thousands of patients.
Illumina's Cheap New Gene Machine Matthew Herper 2010
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The family dynamics are weird and understated, and the time sequencing is occasionally jarring between the dozen or so different narrators.
November Books 22) As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner nwhyte 2009
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It has already examined the DNA of more than 800 people thanks to improvements in sequencing technology since the first complete draft of the human genome was published in 2000.
1000 Genomes Project completes first map of human genetic variation Alok Jha 2010
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Re: If, say, it gets to a point that individual genome sequencing is fast and cheap, and we can thus identify tons of potential health care risks, could and can health insurance companies use that as an excuse to deny coverage?
Matthew Yglesias » Catastrophic Coverage Keeps Us Together 2010
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Planning and intelligence do explain sequencing but that of course is a contravention of the rules of play.
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If, say, it gets to a point that individual genome sequencing is fast and cheap, and we can thus identify tons of potential health care risks, could and can health insurance companies use that as an excuse to deny coverage?
Matthew Yglesias » Catastrophic Coverage Keeps Us Together 2010
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One finding confirmed by the sequencing is that choanoflagellates have many genes that, in animals, produce proteins essential to cell-to-cell signaling and in determining which cells stick to one another.
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The latest revolution in the rapidly moving field of genome sequencing is upon us — single-molecule sequencing.
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But what will happen when people begin sequencing large parts of their DNA routinely, to see whether they are vulnerable to specific diseases?
Who’s Your Daddy? 2007
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