Researchers have created a "metal detector" algorithm called PRRDetect to hunt down vulnerable tumors, in a development that could one day revolutionize the treatment of cancer.

Long-read sequencing technologies analyse long, continuous stretches of DNA. These methods have the potential to improve researchers’ ability to detect complex genetic alterations in cancer genomes.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A global team of scientists has discovered how to make more accurate predictions of genetic mutations that ...

A new age has dawned: the age of when a full genome can be sequenced for $1,000. It’s an important milestone for medicine. DNA sequencing specialists Yves Moreau and Pol Van Dorpe discuss how DNA ...

Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have developed a new machine learning method called SAVANA that significantly reduces sequencing errors for cancer genomes. Long-read ...