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Hello, I am an undergraduate intern at a genomics company that is downsizing. My understanding is they used to do all of lab work, but now it is much cheaper to outsource it all so they are getting rid of a bunch of machinery. I have done a lot of research on this particular item and have come up with absolutely nothing, does anyone know anything about it, any current day uses, if it would be of use to any universities or labs, etc. It's called the "Amersham Biosciences Lucidea Array Spotter 24Pen." It says it was manufactured in October of 2002. I will attach a photo below.
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I’m not a sequencing expert. I’m a purification scientist who uses NGS to evaluate workflows my group develops. With this perspective, we think about the sample first and the NGS workflow second. The sequencer is an exceptionally honest reporter, but it can only report on what you give it, so whether you get clean, interpretable data from an NGS workflow is largely determined before you begin.
Here are nine questions we think about, in roughly the order they matter, before...06-18-2026, 07:11 AM -
Data variability is still an issue in sequencing technologies despite the advances in reproducibility and accuracy of these platforms. But the problem does not originate in the sequencing itself, but in the previous steps, before the sample reaches the sequencer.
The first step is collection, followed by preservation and sample preparation for analysis. Most scientists overlook those steps, but not being careful might just be skewing the experiment’s results.
...06-02-2026, 10:05 AM