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Sanger Sequencing Analysis

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Sanger sequencing is the established technology that is used to validate millions of putative genetic variations identified by next-generation sequencing technology. However, Sanger sequencing throughput is limited compared to next-generation sequencing; its workflow is slow, labour-intensive, and error-prone. The initial step of Sanger sequencing, designing primer pairs for PCR, is often performed manually, with the aid of software such as Primer-Blast that can analyse only one genetic locus at a time, or PCR Suite, that can analyse more than one locus, but does not check for specificity. The manual design of primer pairs is especially cumbersome and prone to errors for long lists of genetic loci.

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