CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Union Minister Harsh Vardhan launches next-generation DNA sequencing facility in Hyderabad.

Detailed explanation-2: -2004: 454 Life Sciences marketed a new generation pyrosequencing technology, called the Roche GS20. It was the first NGS platform on the market. It was launched a few years later and revolutionised DNA sequencing because it could produce up to 20 million base pairs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nucleome Informatics is the fastest growing next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics service provider in India with many academic and industrial customers worldwide. Nucleome is India’s first and only genomics company to provide services on the PacBio Sequel II platform.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nick McCooke led the pioneer team at Solexa that invented next-generation sequencing, a technology to read DNA at high speed that is nowadays used worldwide and has laid the foundation for precision medicine.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Bangalore Biocluster Next Generation Genomics Facility (NGGF) are providing genomics services to scientists, train researchers and also working on national and international genome projects. NGGF has helped scientists across the campus and India to sequence genomes from a range of organisms .