Séquençage shotgunEn génétique, le séquençage shotgun (littéralement séquençage "fusil de chasse") est une méthode utilisée pour séquencer des brins d'ADN aléatoires. On l'appelle ainsi par analogie avec le modèle de tir quasi-aléatoire en pleine expansion d'un fusil de chasse : cette métaphore illustre le caractère aléatoire de la fragmentation initiale de l'ADN génomique où l'on "arrose" tout le génome, un peu comme se dispersent les plombs de ce type d'arme à feu.
Sanger sequencingSanger sequencing is a method of DNA sequencing that involves electrophoresis and is based on the random incorporation of chain-terminating dideoxynucleotides by DNA polymerase during in vitro DNA replication. After first being developed by Frederick Sanger and colleagues in 1977, it became the most widely used sequencing method for approximately 40 years. It was first commercialized by Applied Biosystems in 1986. More recently, higher volume Sanger sequencing has been replaced by next generation sequencing methods, especially for large-scale, automated genome analyses.
Massive parallel sequencingMassive parallel sequencing or massively parallel sequencing is any of several high-throughput approaches to DNA sequencing using the concept of massively parallel processing; it is also called next-generation sequencing (NGS) or second-generation sequencing. Some of these technologies emerged between 1993 and 1998 and have been commercially available since 2005. These technologies use miniaturized and parallelized platforms for sequencing of 1 million to 43 billion short reads (50 to 400 bases each) per instrument run.