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 ...
The landscape of next-generation sequencing (NGS) continues to be defined by astonishing technological progress. We continue ...
Sequencers have come a long way since 1986. Back then, Applied Biosystems' first automated DNA sequencer, the 370A, scanned bands coming off the bottom of a slab gel. Yet it was barely automated: ...