ISSN:
1432-0797
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Abstract For the advancement of Human Genome Project, we have developed an automated DNA sequencing system ‘HUGA-I.’ It is composed of several automated instruments and transfer robots connecting them. In this paper we describe the results of the performance evaluation test of HUGA-I. Although some of the system units showed good performances, the total performance of the HUGA-I was about 1/6 of the designed value. By revealing principal reasons of this poor performance, we would like to contribute to the automation in genome analysis, particularly in human genome analysis. Since the sequence technology advanced remarkably in these years, the system units of HUGA-I become older than those which are now commercially available and the throughput of it is out of our expectations. Nevertheless, we believe that it is meaningful to introduce the exact performance of HUGA-I and present the bottle neck points in the automating sequencing processes. Because, automation in the gene analysis is ultimately important, in particular for the analysis of large genomes such as the human genome. The aims of this paper are to introduce the results in performance evaluation of HUGA-I and to elucidate the bottle neck points in the automation of sequencing processes.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00417632
