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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.