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A scalable, fully automated process for construction of sequence-ready barcoded libraries for 454

Niall J Lennon1, Robert E Lintner1, Scott Anderson1, Pablo Alvarez2, Andrew Barry1, William Brockman3, Riza Daza1, Rachel L Erlich1, Georgia Giannoukos4, Lisa Green1, Andrew Hollinger1, Cindi A Hoover5, David B Jaffe4, Frank Juhn1, Danielle McCarthy1, Danielle Perrin1, Karen Ponchner1, Taryn L Powers1, Kamran Rizzolo1, Dana Robbins1, Elizabeth Ryan1, Carsten Russ4, Todd Sparrow1, John Stalker1, Scott Steelman1, Michael Weiand1, Andrew Zimmer1, Matthew R Henn1, Chad Nusbaum4 and Robert Nicol1*

Author Affiliations

1 Genome Sequencing Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 320 Charles St., Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

2 Current address: Network Control Engineering, Akamai Technologies Inc., 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

3 Current address: Engineering, Google Inc., 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

4 Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

5 Current address: Genomic Technologies, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA

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Genome Biology 2010, 11:R15 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-r15

Published: 5 February 2010

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A figure containing a process map for plate-based fragment library construction with details of automation used for each step.

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A figure containing a process map for plate-based 3-kb jumping library construction with details of automation used for each step.

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