Effects of sample age on data quality from targeted sequencing of museum specimens: what are we capturing in time?

Abstract Background Next generation sequencing (NGS) can recover DNA data from valuable extant and extinct museum specimens. However, archived or preserved DNA is difficult to sequence because of its fragmented, damaged nature, such that the most successful NGS methods for preserved specimens remain...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Angela McGaughran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
NGS
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-020-6594-0