Re: DNASEQ: 96-well DNA prep protocols

Amos Heckendorf (nestgrp@world.std.com)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:00:02 -0500

Bob:

You may want to look up the following current reference where they used
96-Well spin plates for the isolation of DNA from dried blood spots:

Anal Biochem 267 (2) 415-418 (1999) Tsing Su & Anne Comeau "Cellulose as a
Matrix for Nucleic Acid Purification".

Regards,
Amos Heckendorf
The Nest Group

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Lyons <boblyons@umich.edu>
>To: Recipients of ABRF List <abrf@aecom.yu.edu>
>Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:00 PM
>Subject: DNASEQ: 96-well DNA prep protocols

>>I have a client who wants to submit 500 clones for sequencing,
>>and would appreciate not having to (a) run manual minipreps
>>on all of them, or (b) buy a robot or other expensive apparatus
>>for this one chore. The clones are currently in five 96-well
>>plates, presumably as bacterial stocks.
>>
>>Does anyone have suggestions on how they should proceed? Any
>>experience with 96-well miniprep methods that would give good,
>>sequencable template and yet not cost too much? Source for
>>protocols?

>>Robert Lyons, Ph.D.
>>Director, DNA Sequencing Core
>>University of Michigan

Amos Heckendorf (nestgrp@world.std.com)

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