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• n  (chemistry) an apparatus that can determine the sequence of monomers in a polymer
• n  computer hardware that sorts data or programs into a predetermined sequence

• In 1998, when Hunkapiller showed Venter his new ABI Prism 3700, a sequencer five times as fast and even more highly automated, Venter formed a partnership with Hunkapiller's .
• This is the essence of the gene, and it was these stripped-down genetic instructions--copied into a more stable form known as cDNA--that he fed into an automated gene sequencer he .
• His automatic sequencer could then read the letters of these genetic instructions.

• sequenator

News & Articles

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• Illumina Launches New Reagent Kits for the MiSeq® System
  Illumina, Inc. today announced the availability of its newest reagent kits for the MiSeq, the industry’s most accurate and easiest-to-use benchtop sequencer. The improved chemistry doubles sequencing output to 15 gigabases by increasing the number of sequencing reads and overall read length .
  Aug. 19, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Leroy Hood in Genetic Engineering News (press release)
  Technology advancements such as the gene sequencer have allowed us to obtain more information about complex biological systems than ever before,Hood said. "In order to make sense of all this information we need biologists, mathematicians,...