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Automated Colony Pickers Evolve
Former genomics workhorses change to meet different market segment needs
Email: Helen Dell - hdell@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(13):32
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Everyone knows that the first genome sequencing projects took years of work and represent the combined product of tens of thousands of individual fragments. But what people may not have considered is that before any of those fragments could be sequenced, they first had to be cloned, picked from a library, and mini-prepped. Picking all of those colonies by hand would have required an army of technicians so, in the early 1990s, the sequencing institutes decided to automate.
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