Published in GigaBlog
Author Scott Edmunds
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The first comprehensive mobile genome analysis application, iGenomics, is now available for download and use on an iOS smartphone . By pairing an smartphone with a handheld DNA sequencer, users will be able to create a mobile genetics laboratory, reminiscent of the Star Trek’s “tricorder”. Just published is an article presenting iGenomics, the first DNA sequencing toolkit that can run on a smartphone.