What is shotgun sequencing and how does it work?

Related questions

1. What can DNA sequencing tell us?
2. What is sequencing data?
3. What is Sanger sequencing used for?
4. What is the purpose of genome sequencing?
5. What is the purpose of genotyping?
6. Why is it possible to use a DNA sequence to identify bacteria?
7. What is metagenomic sequencing?
8. What does .NG mean?

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4. #shotgun
5. #together
6. #sequence
7. #where
8. #sequencing
9. #programs
10. #assembled
11. #involves
12. #computer
13. #fragments
14. #looking
15. #reassembling
16. #breaking
17. #randomly
18. #overlap
19. #sequences
20. #regions