Most existing DNA sequencers (including the 454 machine) do their reading by attaching light-producing molecules to DNA, taking pictures and analyzing the resulting image.
Existing DNA sequencers, he reasoned, used clunky technology akin to computers based on vacuum tubes.
On January 10, Life Technologies and Illumina both announced plans for faster, same-day DNA sequencers.
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Another notable loss was Pacific Biosciences, the maker of high-tech DNA sequencers.
If the cost does drop, the market "verges on being insatiable, " says Jay Flatley, chief executive of Illumina, the leading maker of DNA sequencers.
The early DNA sequencers that were used in the Human Genome Project started out at Perkin-Elmer before a restructuring made the technology part of a separate company.
Illumina of San Diego, the leading maker of DNA sequencers, runs a service business that chief executive Jay Flatley has said has been seeing mainly infants and cancer patients.
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Far less lucky was Pacific Biosciences, the maker of DNA sequencers which is ranking on the sad side of this roundup for the second month in a row.
Rather than compete with makers of big DNA sequencing machines, PerkinElmer is creating a service business that will allow researchers to get human genetic data without owning their own DNA sequencers or high-powered supercomputers.
Working with patient samples collected by the MMRF and using DNA sequencers made by Illumina of San Diego, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard sequenced the genes of 38 myeloma tumors and the DNA of the patients in whom they were growing.
Now, using one of the fastest DNA sequencers on the market, researchers at Penn State, Columbia University, and the United States Department of Agriculture have found that collapsing hives are much more likely to be infected by the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), using a new approach that aims to sequence all the genes in an environment almost as if they were single organisms.
When automated gene sequencers began sifting through thousands of DNA units a day, Incyte switched its focus to genes in 1993.
New, faster genetic sequencers are making this work ever more possible, especially since they don't require DNA to be extracted from cells and then replicated in bacteria, a process that can actually cause valuable data to be lost.
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