As a reminder, in order to streamline our service and provide for price reductions the DAF is using robotics for some of its everyday practices. We are now using a robotics workstation to set up our sequencing reactions and perform other tedious pipetting tasks to reduce error and increase efficiency. Standard sequencing primers will still be available at the facility. Users can bring the template in the 1.5 ml tube to the facility and add the standard primer at the facility. We have started distributing our sequencing data via the computer network.
Users can download both the text consensus sequence and the chromatogram from our server.
There is also free software that allows for viewing, editing and printing of the chromatograms available on the server for users to download. The program,called EditView, is for the Macintosh only, and can be downloaded to your hard drive. Data on disk will only be available in the lab on a limited basis. Our homepage has been updated and a lot of useful information, such as protocols for better preps and other useful reference material, has been included. We recommend that new, as well as regular, users of the facility look at this information and hope you will find it useful.