(from the Brown News Bureau)

Brown Computer Science professors Franco Preparata and Eliezer Upfal are working on a method to sequence DNA that would be faster and more efficient than the current technique. They are attempting to improve on an alternative method known as sequencing by hybridization by inserting gaps that act as wildcards in DNA probes

For more information, see the full article at

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2000-01/00-037.html