Edited by
Alister Craig, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, U.K.
Jörg Hoheisel, Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
Description
Automation is the major future trend for many areas in microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry, among other disciplines. It is
an enormously exciting area, where techniques and assays that were once repetitive, tedious and time consuming, can be performed robotically,
liberating the time of researchers and hospital laboratory workers for more interesting work. Many techniques have now been automated
and often miniaturized, including PCR analysis, DNA/RNA preparation, diagnostic tests (e.g., Pap tests), compound screening and, of course,
sequencing. Some major advances, notably in Professor Lee Hood's group, have resulted in the ability to perform thousands of assays simultaneously
on a normal microscope slide.
Automation, edited by two of the leading experts in the field, presents the very latest
experimental techniques explained in detail. This book has succeeded in bringing together researchers at the forefront of clone library
construction, genome analysis, sequencing, computation data evaluation and functional analysis, to provide insight into this "new age"
of research based on genomic and chemical screening.
Included in series
Methods in Microbiology
Audience:
Molecular biologists, genetics, biochemists, cell biologists, pharmacologists, microscopists, microbiologist, and clinical researchers.
