{"id":291522,"date":"2017-03-23T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0fc610b6b16696cf51ab8c5df08237bc"},"modified":"2017-03-23T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:00:08","slug":"scientists-use-new-technology-to-assemble-genome-of-zika-virus-mosquito-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=291522","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use new technology to assemble genome of Zika virus mosquito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team spanning Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which can assemble the genome of an organism, entirely from scratch, dramatically cheaper and faster. While there is much excitement about the so-called &#8220;$1000 genome&#8221; in medicine, when a doctor orders the DNA sequence of a patient, the test merely compares fragments of DNA from the patient to a reference genome. The task of generating a reference genome from scratch is an entirely different matter; for instance, the original human genome project took 10 years and cost $4 billion. The ability to quickly and easily generate a reference genome from scratch would open the door to creating reference genomes for everything from patients to tumors to all species on earth. Today in Science, the multi-institutional team reports a method &#8211; called 3D genome assembly &#8211; that can create a human reference genome, entirely from scratch, for less than $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team spanning Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which can assemble the genome of an organism, entirely from scratch, dramatic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291523,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291522\/revisions\/291523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}