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Free to go but required to stay: contrasting views on mitochondrial relationships

Posted on 19 Jan, 2017 by Rob Denton

Ever since a bacterium found itself mysteriously engulfed in our eukaryotic ancestor, things have been, uh, complicated regarding our two genomes. One is big, one is small. One is circular, one is linear. One is numerous in each cell, the … Continue reading →

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What do with all those pesky mtDNA reads in your NGS experiment

Posted on 21 Jul, 2015 by Noah Snyder-Mackler

Have you ever noticed how many reads from your high throughput sequencing project map to the tiny fraction of your genome that is the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA)? Pretty much any NGS experiment (e.g., RNA-seq, DNA-seq, capture-based sequencing) leave you with … Continue reading →

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