Novel biochemical processes using magnetic particles have been automated to provide a robotic system to perform processes for large-scale shotgun sequencing.
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Watson, A., Smaldon, N., Lucke, R. et al. The Caenorhabditis elegans genome sequencing project: first steps in automation. Nature 362, 569–570 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/362569a0
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