Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, 855 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. mostafa@stanford.edu
Since the invention of pyrosequencing, more than 500 articles have been published describing different applications of this technology, most notably for DNA structure variation and microbial detection. Technological advances have been made to enhance the robustness and accuracy of this technique as well as to reduce the cost and increase the throughput. This review intends to cover recent advances in this technology and discuss its application for low and high-throughput DNA variation studies.