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VOL. 4, Issue No. 4 July/August 2017
3 | NEWS
Solving Genetic Mysteries:
The DISCOVER Program Helps
Diagnose and Treat Rare Diseases
10 | FROM THE EDITOR
Insurers Have Role to Play in NGS Diagnostics Adoption
11 | OP-ED
Sanger Sequencing Necessity in Clinical Labs
16 | DIAGNOSTICS
26 | FEATURE
Deeper Diagnostic Dive:
Diagnostics Leveraging Next-Generation
Sequencing Become Mainstream for
Cancer and Rare Diseases
30 | DATA & INFORMATICS
Triple Threat: OnRamp Bioinformatics, Cloudian,
ScaleMatrix Combine Services for Genomic Data
Analysis and Storage Offering
34 | IN THE LAB
Barriers in Biobanking:
Obstacles Remain in
Connecting Researchers
with the Right Specimens
for Their Work
39 | NEW PRODUCTS
40 | PRECISION MEDICINE
Up to Code: Geisinger's MyCode Genomics Data
Brings Power to Precision Medicine and Research
44 | INDUSTRY EVENTS
A Conversation with Heidi Rehm
Clinical genomics thought leader shares her
insights on exome vs. genome sequencing,
data-sharing initiatives, and more.
A Noninvasive Future
As noninvasive prenatal testing takes
off, researchers look to the next frontier
of single-cell analysis.
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