Difference between revisions of "Team:Uppsala/Transcriptomics/Sequencing"

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<p>Throughout the worm buster project we have at many times felt the need for assistance or input on different parts of our project. Without those small but immensely meaningful things our project would never had gotten this far and in the worse case never been possible at all. Therefore we would like to express our gratitude to all the people that supported us throughout the project. </p>  
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<p>Sequencing is the final step of the journey and generally makes up a lot of different and varying methods with the common purpose of determining the primary atomic-level structure of what you’re interested in, resulting in sequences of bases making it all up. Most often this includes proteins, polymers or as in our case the keys to life: genetic material; enabling us to read it like a book of sorts.<br><br>
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Oxford Nanopore’s MinION third generation sequencing device makes use of nano-sized holes called nanopores with an applied voltage across them. In essence: when you’re material of choice passes through one of this pores, each base fluctuates this current by a given amount which acts as a fingerprint to identify the given base.
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<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/3/38/T--Uppsala--MinION.jpeg" class="center" height="70%" width="70%">
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<p align="center"><b>Figure 1:</b> The MinION device.</p><br><br>
  
  

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