Compare and contrast the assembly of genomes using Sanger and next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches

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Compare and contrast the assembly of genomes using Sanger and next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches

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Genome sequencing: genome means total gene content present in the organism and sequence means to determine the nucleotides sequence or position. Genome is a very large quantity that is the very difficult part of knowing the sequence of nucleotides. Sanger sequencing, pyrosequencing, shotgun sequencing, high through output sequencing, etc are different types of methods is used for genome sequencing.

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