The HeliScope is extremely heavy, first HeliScope customer says

[ECO]

GenomeWeb posts that Helicos has announced that the first HeliScope has been sold to genomic services company Expression Analysis.

A rather uneventful article, except for the very last line:

...noting that it must first perform structural work on its facility to support the weight of the instrument.

For some reason that just made me laugh.

[bioinfosm]

First Helicos shipped

http://www.bio-itworld.com/BioIT_Article.aspx?id=73220

[apfejes]

Heh.. definitely not benchtop. (-;