Bob Sinclair | Apr 11, 1999 | 10+ min read
Date: April 12, 1999Table of DNA Sequencers LI-COR's IR2 Automated DNA Sequencer The first time I ran a sequencing gel using 35S rather than 32P, I was in heaven. The bands on the autoradiogram were incredibly sharp, the background was amazingly clean, and my read length increased by close to 20% to just over 100 bases. Things just couldn't get any better than that! In 1994, The Scientist reviewed the state of DNA sequencing technology and made some predictions about what might be coming next