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Capacity: 96 Capillary Sequencing

Slide 23

March 2009

The capacity of 96 capillary sequencing is that with a 3-hour run time, one can do 8 cycles a day. Each machine can run 960 sequences a day. Hence the 330 machines that Celera had were able to process 316,800 sequences with up to 1000 base pairs per sequence. Thus, that is 31,680,000 base pairs of sequencing per day and when this was run continuously for 3 to 4 months, they were able to generate the complete human genome sequence of the Craig Venter genome and basically do 25 gigabases of sequencing to completely cover his genome.

Capacity: 96 Capillary Sequencing

 


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