[ExI] Basically, DNA is a computing problem

[Joao Magalhaes]

Here is a more detailed description of the Solexa technology used to 
re-sequence the human genome:
http://web.mit.edu/6.874/www/lectures/lecture1/SS_DNAsequencing.pdf

And an overview written by my boss of different new generation sequencing 
technologies:
http://arep.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Church05s.pdf

Cheers,
JP


At 05:18 PM 2/3/2008, you wrote:
>On Sunday 02 March 2008, Joao Magalhaes wrote:
> > The new generation sequencing technologies don't require
> > electrophoresis: http://www.illumina.com/pages.ilmn?ID=203
>
>This page is hard to understand. It looks like they're saying they have
>chemical protocols for the manipulation and PCR amplification of DNA
>fragments, and are somehow using fluorescent techniques to identify
>each base pair, but this doesn't tell me what's actually going on.
>
>- Bryan
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