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The Automated DNA Sequencer
Where would the Human Genome Project, bioinformatics, and life sciences in general, be without it?
Email: Alison McCook - amccook@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(16):15
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As a graduate student at Stanford University in the early 1990s, Jonathan Eisen convinced a friend with access to one of the first automated DNA sequencers to run 10,000 base pairs for him. "Doing it myself, without an automated sequencer, would have taken at least a year, and it wouldn't have been particularly accurate," he recalls. Instead, Eisen got the entire sequence in just two weeks. "I never did manual sequencing again," says Eisen. "Even a simple sequence. There was no point."
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