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Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, defines shotgun sequencing and compares the two methods.
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Shotgun sequencing - an alternative method, using random, rather than consecutive, sub-strands.
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Shotgun sequencing derives its name from the randomly generated DNA fragments that are the objects of scrutiny.
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Shotgun sequencing: A way of determining the sequence of a large DNA fragment which requires little brain power but lots of late nights.
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Whole genome shotgun sequencing skips the mapping step of clone-based sequencing.
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The so-called shotgun sequencing technique (which was used, for example, by The Institute for Genomic Research to sequence the first bacterial genome, Haemophilus influenza) does not give a sequential list of nucleotides, ...
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Refers to longer fragments of DNA built from short fragments, e.g., a long contiguous DNA sequence assembled from shotgun sequencing.
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