Friday, August 1, 2008

[Review] News on ancient DNA research

Title:
New developments in ancient genomics
Source:
Millar, C.D. et al. (2008) Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:386-393

Notes:
The authors reviewed the recent progress on the DNA sequencing techniques that could be applied to ancient DNA research. These include the massively parallel sequencing technologies:
FLX (Roche)
Solexa (Illumina)
SOLiD (Applied Biosystems)
HeliScope (Helicos BioSciences)

雖然這些方法都很貴,但是將來的研究結果應該都會很有趣,也許許多滅絕生物真的就會被重新弄活過來。
另外台灣已經有些地方已經買了Solexa,像中研院,成大,中興,只是能不能做這些有趣又神奇的研究就難說了。

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