Cleaning DNA Seq. plates

mcada002@mc.duke.edu
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 14:28 -0400 (EDT)

We routinely wash manually everyday with hot water in the sink using
Multi-Terge detergent (available from EM Science and others probably)
and have no apparent problem with build-up. Knock on wood! Final
rinse is with Milli-Q water

But the gel formulation cannot be ruled out either. Before switching
to Long Ranger Singel we had seen a problem with build-up using a
different formulation. We cleaned the plates with Multi-Terge and the
problem went away. We also switched to Long Ranger gels shortly
thereafter so we cannot rule out that the gel formulation could also
contribute to the problem.

Millie
HHMI Biopolymer Facility @ DUMC