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Your DNA is as elastic as nylon

In a paper published last year, scientists measured DNA’s elasticity and found it to be 83 newtons per meter, or about like nylon. Although DNA is not pulling a suburban like Travis Ortmayer in the...

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Get DNA sequences using R and BSgenome

My typical approach for getting a particular DNA sequence is to use the UCSC genome browser. Recently I needed to screen over 40 SNPs for restriction enzyme cut sites and didn’t want to go through all...

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Visualizing dog and human synteny

If you are into comparative genomics like me, I highly recommend the site AutoGRAPH for looking at synteny. According to the website, “It is designed for constructing and visualizing synteny maps...

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