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What are two of the distinguishing aspects of next generation sequencing (NGS) compared to earlier types of sequencing?
Explain an advantage and a disadvantage to using next generation sequencing.
The critical difference between treditional earlier sequencing and NGS is sequencing volume of gene. While the treditional earlier sequencing method only sequences a single DNA fragment at a time.
NGS is massively parallel, sequencing millions of fragments of DNA simultaneously per run. This high-throughput sequencing process translates into sequencing hundreds to thousands of genes at one time.
NGS also offers greater discovery power to detect novel or rare variants with deep sequencing of gene.
Advantages of Next generation sequencing:
Disadvantages