Reading DNA with Nanomachines(lchou1.blogspot.com)

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pratvor 17 Jahren

Thanks for posting this. I wonder if they ever come up with a sequencing platform that relies on millions of nano machines crawling along the dna, sending signals of which nucleotide they just traversed.

Estragonvor 17 Jahren

Actually, most sequencing platforms work something like this. The "nano machine" is a natural or modified polymerase. Pacific Biosciences' new platform, supposedly commercially available in a year or two, matches your conception pretty closely.

http://www.pacificbiosciences.com/video_lg.html

leecho0vor 17 Jahren

well, there are many different approaches right now. I really gotta say, some of the stuff they came up with are ingenious. I'll try to introduce others if there is enough interest here =D.