Decon Recon
The Scientist Magazine,
ILLUSTRATIONS BY JACKIE FERRENTINO When Supratim Mukherjee noticed the same bacteriophage sequence popping up again and again…
ILLUSTRATIONS BY JACKIE FERRENTINO When Supratim Mukherjee noticed the same bacteriophage sequence popping up again and again…
From tossing out cross-contaminated cell lines to flagging genomic misnomers, a push is on to tidy up biomedical research.
Researchers are working to automate the arduous task of identifying—and amending—mislabeled sequences in genetic databases.
Research in BioData Mining reveals how seven percent of the sequence data in the 1000 Genomes Project may be contaminated with…