Thursday 5 September 2013

New tool enhances the search for genetic mutations

Reed Cartwright, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, along with colleagues at his University, Washington University, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, report in Nature Methods on a new software tool known as DeNovoGear, which uses statistical probabilities to help identify mutations and more accurately pinpoint their source and their possible significance for health. Read more here.

Article mentioned: Ramu A, et al. DeNovoGear: de novo indel and point mutation discovery and phasing. Nat Methods. 2013 Aug 25. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23975140

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