Sequencers have come a long way since 1986. Back then, Applied Biosystems' first automated DNA sequencer, the 370A, scanned bands coming off the bottom of a slab gel. Yet it was barely automated: ...

Today automated sequencers carry out many of the steps that were once done by hand to churn out over two million bases in one day. But a growing demand for even greater speeds and lower costs is ...

Craig Venter. For several years, Venter had been using automated DNA sequencers to sequence portions of chromosomes associated with Huntington's disease and myotonic dystrophy (Adams et al., ...

Like sequencing technologies themselves, sequence analysis software has evolved substantially from its original incarnation. In the 1980s, before graphical operating systems became standard, these ...