Genome Sequencing as Public Art

Whole-genome sequencing in bacteriology: state of the art

Over the last ten years, genome sequencing capabilities have expanded exponentially. There have been tremendous advances in sequencing technology, DNA sample preparation, genome assembly, and data analysis. This has led to advances in a number of facets of bacterial genomics, including metagenomics, clinical medicine, bacterial archaeology, and bacterial evolution. This review examines the stre...

Expert opinion on whole genome sequencing for public health surveillance

Sequencing the salmon genome: A deliberative public engagement

Salmon genomics is an emerging field that represents a convergence between socially important scientific innovation and a politically volatile topic of significant interest to the public. These factors provide a strong rationale for public input. This report describes such input from a public engagement event based on the principles of deliberative democracy. The event involved a random, demogr...

Whole genome sequencing in clinical and public health microbiology

Genomics and whole genome sequencing (WGS) have the capacity to greatly enhance knowledge and understanding of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology.The growth and availability of bench-top WGS analysers has facilitated the feasibility of genomics in clinical and public health microbiology.Given current resource and infrastructure limitations, WGS is most applicable to use in public hea...

Genome Sequencing

The concept of genome sequencing is quite simple. Break your genome up into many different small fragments, clone those fragments into a cloning vector, isolate many clones, and sequence each clone. All of the techniques used for sequencing are well established. These are the same techniques that scientists used for the past twenty years to characterize many different individual genes. Using th...