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Automatic DNA analyser

Automatic DNA analyser

1999

MinION™ Mk1C, a portable laboratory seqeuncer

MinION™ Mk1C, a portable laboratory seqeuncer

2020

MinION portable device for electronic single-molecule sensing

MinION portable device for electronic single-molecule sensing

circa 2014

MinION portable sequencer, for real-time DNA and RNA sequencing, made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, 2022.

MinION portable device for DNA sequencing made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, 2022.

2022

MinION portable sequencer, for real-time DNA and RNA sequencing, made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, 2022.

MinION portable device for DNA sequencing made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, 2022.

2022

ABI PRISM® 377 DNA Sequencer, made by Applied Biosystems, with a Power Mackintosh G3 computer and keyboard, made c.1990. This sequencer was first purchased in the 1998 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and later transferred to Sheffield Hallam University in 2004 for use by the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Department of Biosciences and Chemistry. The machine was discontinued by ABI in 2001. The sequencer comes with two boxes of glass plates and spacers, as well as other attachments.

ABI PRISM® 377 DNA Sequencer

1988-1992

PacBio RSII genome sequencer, made by Pacific Biosciences, United States, 2013

PacBio RSII genome sequencer

2013

ABI 3730XL a capillary-based DNA sequencer able to read 96 samples simultaneously, made by Applied Biosystems, United States, c.2002. One of a number of similar machines used within the Human Genome Project at the Wellcome Sanger Institute between 2002 and 2007.

ABI 3730XL capillary-based DNA sequencer, used within the Human Genome Project at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, made by Applied Biosystems, 2002

2002

MinION™ Mk1C portable device for DNA and RNA sequencing, of the type used extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies®, UK, 2020

MinION™ Mk1C, a portable laboratory sequencer

2020

Box for MinION portable sequencer, for real-time DNA and RNA sequencing, made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, 2022. The box contains a foam insert, one card guide, one paper leaflet of safety and regulatory information, and one USB wire with cardboard packaging.

Box for MinION portable device for DNA sequencing made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, 2022.

2022