Niraj Rai of the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India carried out ancient DNA analysis on these human bone remains excavated from the St. Augustine convent by sequencing and genotyping of the Mitochondrial DNA.
Professor Curl's current research interests involve physical chemistry, developing DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and creating quantum cascade laser-based mid-infrared trace gas monitoring instrumentation.
The format has been developed with the advent of large-scale genotyping and DNA sequencing projects, such as the 1000 Genomes Project.
xMAP (Multi-Analyte Profiling) technology is a multiplex assay format, patented by Luminex Corporation, using a panel of microspheres internally doped with two fluorescent dyes to produce up to 100 different bead identities that can be used in various applications - from HLA genotyping by oligonucleotide probe hybridization to serological profiling e.g. antibody diversity profiling, antibody identification or histocompatibility screen etc