Thank you Jessica for your excellent article on DNA sequencing. It brought many memories of pouring and running our own sequencing gels, developing the films and reading and proof reading the sequences without too many mistakes. That's how we identified the 1st mutation in Tay-Sach's disease at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto in 1988. And …
Thank you Jessica for your excellent article on DNA sequencing. It brought many memories of pouring and running our own sequencing gels, developing the films and reading and proof reading the sequences without too many mistakes. That's how we identified the 1st mutation in Tay-Sach's disease at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto in 1988. And to aid reading of the sequences I made a sequence reader called DNA Parrot that consisted of a cursor with 4 buttons and audio and visual feedback and software to enter the sequence into a computer. This device was also able to proofread the sequence. This was 35 years ago, hard to believe. I was marketing it around the world for a few years and sold quite a few of those units.
Thank you Jessica for your excellent article on DNA sequencing. It brought many memories of pouring and running our own sequencing gels, developing the films and reading and proof reading the sequences without too many mistakes. That's how we identified the 1st mutation in Tay-Sach's disease at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto in 1988. And to aid reading of the sequences I made a sequence reader called DNA Parrot that consisted of a cursor with 4 buttons and audio and visual feedback and software to enter the sequence into a computer. This device was also able to proofread the sequence. This was 35 years ago, hard to believe. I was marketing it around the world for a few years and sold quite a few of those units.