[ExI] Basically, DNA is a computing problem

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 22:18:21 UTC 2008


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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