Storing Structure

As more and more people have their genomes decoded, scientists are scrambling to find the best way to organize and analyze all of that DNA.The National Institutes of Health on 30 September launched a public database to catalog a particularly important type of genomic data: so-called 'structural variation' — large deletions, duplications and rearrangements of DNA. A description of the new resource, dubbed dbVar, and how it will complement existing collections appears in the October issue of Nature Genetics.Read more at...SFARI, October 2010.

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