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Hyseq Announces 5 Kb Sequencing on HyChip

May 18, 2000
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Hyseq claimed that its standard HyChip biochip now sequences 5,000 bases of DNA in a single reaction --five times the capacity of traditional gel sequencing techniques. Hyseq's scientists believe that this advance allows the HyChip biochip to sequence the full protein encoding length of most human genes, or to detect polymorphisms from hundreds of genes, in a single reaction.

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