A next generation semiconductor based sequencing approach for the identification of meat species in DNA mixtures.

The identification of the species of origin of meat and meat products is an important issue to prevent and detect frauds that might have economic, ethical and health implications. In this paper we evaluated the potential of the next generation semiconductor based sequencing technology (Ion Torrent P...

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Main Authors: Francesca Bertolini, Marco Ciro Ghionda, Enrico D'Alessandro, Claudia Geraci, Vincenzo Chiofalo, Luca Fontanesi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4414512?pdf=render