“A new frontier”: Fastest ever DNA sequencing technique achieved

Standing from left to right: Euan Ashley, Mehrzad Samadi, Tong Zhu, Joseph Guillory, Benedict Paten, Jean Monlong, Diana Fisk, Megan Grove Tia Moscarello, Liz Spiteri, Lizzie Dorfman, Maria Nattestad, Howard Yang, Greg Corrado, Pi-Chuan Chang, Andrew Carroll, Daniel Garalde, Brittany Dunn. Kneeling from left to right: Kishwar Shafin, John Gorzynski, Tanner Jensen, Sneha Goenka, Katherine Chou, Gunjan Baid. Credit: Steve Fisch

By Ana Rahlves | Published by Guinness World Records

May 5, 2022

UC Santa Cruz researchers from the Computational Genomics Lab create the computational backbone for a new world-record in sequencing speed. Read about it on the Guinness World Records website (linked).