Re: Sequencing with 310

Dieter Deforce (Dieter.Deforce@rug.ac.be)
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:20:33 +0200 (MET DST)

At 15:14 6-10-98 -0600, you wrote:
>Greetings to all:
> My Sequencing Facility is interested in buying
>a capillary-based sequencer, and I am curious
>about read length. Currently, using an ABI 377, I
>am getting up to 1100 bases. Is anyone using an
>ABI 310 getting reads this long? Thanks in advance
>for any replies.
>
>Sheryl Christofferson
>sherylc@omrf.ouhsc.edu
>
Hello,

We are using the ABI310 for sequencing purposes from time to time and the
maximum read length we have obtained so far is about 600-700 bases.

Maybe it is important to know that one sequencing run on the ABI 310 takes
about 2 hours for one sample.

Greetings,

Dieter
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