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01-12-2009 | Short communication

Next-generation sequencing

Author: Jorge S Reis-Filho

Published in: Breast Cancer Research | Special Issue 3/2009

Abstract

Next-generation sequencing (also known as massively parallel sequencing) technologies are revolutionising our ability to characterise cancers at the genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic levels. Cataloguing all mutations, copy number aberrations and somatic rearrangements in an entire cancer genome at base pair resolution can now be performed in a matter of weeks. Furthermore, massively parallel sequencing can be used as a means for unbiased transcriptomic analysis of mRNAs, small RNAs and noncoding RNAs, genome-wide methylation assays and high-throughput chromatin immunoprecipitation assays. Here, I discuss the potential impact of this technology on breast cancer research and the challenges that come with this technological breakthrough.

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Title: Next-generation sequencing
Author: Jorge S Reis-Filho
Publication date: 01-12-2009
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Breast Cancer Research / Issue Special Issue 3/2009
Electronic ISSN: 1465-542X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr2431

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