Replying to your comment: "If you have a 3100 that can only do 96 samples
in 24 hours you have to have a big investment in equipment to equal the
output of a 377 that can run 4 or 5 gels a day at the 4x speed". We have
a 3100 with 384 well plate holder. We can run 576 samples in 24 hours. We
need only load the 3100 once a day. We retired our 377 because it was labor
intensive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hills, Harold [mailto:Harold.Hills@umassmed.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:22 PM
To: Recipients of ABRF List
Cc: 'wfehr@iastate.edu'
Subject: DNA sequence turn around time
Next day service is not out of line for on campus users. We
accomplished
this for many years at Iowa State. It makes sense to run a
2nd or even a
3rd shift, operating round the clock to make best use of
your instruments.
Of course with the 3100 or 3700 you can set them and forget
them and they
work through the night. If you have a 3100 that can only
do 96 samples in
24 hours you have to have a big investment in equipment to
equal the output
of a 377 that can run 4 or 5 gels a day at the 4x speed.
It may not be the
best use of huge amounts of money to have it tied up in
instruments which
become obsolete if one must always have the absolute latest
model equipment.
Hal
Harold G. Hills, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology, S3-308
Harold.Hills@umassmed.edu
University of Massachusetts Medical School 508
856-2541
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
Information on trouble shooting 377 Sequences at URL below.
http://www.biotech.iastate.edu/facilities/DSSF/ABRF/default.html
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