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Robotics and automation

  1. Elaine R. Mardis

Published Online: 15 JAN 2005

DOI: 10.1002/047001153X.g201209

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Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

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Mardis, E. R. 2005. Robotics and automation. Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics.

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  1. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

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  1. Published Online: 15 JAN 2005
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High-throughput DNA sequence generation, as we currently know it, was enabled over the past 15 years by a variety of technological developments that rendered it a highly automated process. This article chronicles key milestones in technology and the efforts that utilized these technologies in the pursuit of faster, cheaper DNA sequence generation.

Keywords: genome sequencing; laboratory automation; robotics

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