Research project

GR/S23513/01

Project overview

The proposal described below is fundamentally a new method of synthesising, screening and sequencing DNA at a rate that is thousands of time,, faster than existing methods. If successful it will allow over 4 billion bases to be sequenced in less than a day on one instrument! The magnitude what is being proposed here is quite literally mind-boggling and will cause a revolution in all areas of human health forever changing the landscape biological and medicinal sciences. En route spin off applications will include the rapid and comprehensive identification of all single base changes a given person's genome, the ability to analyse large numbers of people for the presence of single changes at an unprecedented rate, a method fl rapidly and cheaply producing huge numbers (100,000s) of defined oligonucleotide sequences, and the use of this methodology to change curren array technology as well as the ultimate aim of sequencing billions of bases a day.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Hywel Morgan MBE

Professor of Bioelectronics
Research interests
  • Microfluidics
  • Bio-sensors
  • Lab-on-a-chip technologies
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Other researchers

Professor Jonathan Essex

Professor
Research interests
  • Molecular simulations of biological systems
  • Computer aided drug discovery
  • Method development in molecular simulations
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Dr Iris Nandhakumar

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Scanning Probe Microscopy
  • Carbon nanotubes
  • Nanoscale materials
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Professor Adam Prugel-Bennett

Prof of Electronics & Computer Science
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Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

D. Holmes, J.K. She, P.L. Roach & H. Morgan, 2007, Lab on a Chip, 7(8), 1048-1056
Type: article
Gabriel Cavalli, Shahanara Banu, Rohan T. Ranasinghe, Graham R. Broder, Hugo F.P. Martins, Cameron Neylon, Hywel Morgan, Mark Bradley & Peter L. Roach, 2007, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, 9(3), 462-472
Type: article
G.S. Galitonov, S. Birtwell, N.I. Zheludev & H. Morgan, 2006, Optics Express, 14(4), 1382-1387
Type: article
Gerald Weber, Niall Haslam, Nava Whiteford, Adam Prügel-Bennett, Jonathan Essex & Cameron Neylon, 2006, Nature Physics, 2(1), 55-59
Type: article
Nava Whiteford, Niall Haslam, Gerald Weber, Adam Prugel-Bennett, Jonathan W. Essex, Peter L. Roach, Mark Bradley & Cameron Neylon, 2005, Nucleic Acids Research, 33(19), e171
Type: article