Software Can Now Identify DNA From Viruses and Speed Up Diagnoses

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announced this week that bioinformatics software it created can now identify DNA from fungi, bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, slashing the time it takes to diagnose some illnesses from weeks to hours.The software can also speed the analysis of cancerous tumor genetics for chemotherapy options and prognosis.The LANL's new version of its Sequedex software recognizes patterns in short DNA sequences and then associates those sequences with phylogeny --