Objective
This project is based on the observation that the electrophoresis step in sequencing is a major bottleneck and a considerable financial burden of the genome biomedical project. It is aimed at constructing a prototype capillary array sequencer with significantly increased output and decreased operation cost, as compared with slab-gel sequencers. Capillary electrophoresis combines the following advantages as compared with slab-gels : - Capability of sustaining higher field strengths, leading to shorter separation times
- Easty automation of separation matrix replacement and sample loading
- Miniaturization, allowing a larger number of samples to be studied.
The project focuses on low operation cost, high automation and robustness for routine operation. It will include in particular the evaluation and optional integration in the prototype of the following innovative approaches:
- The synthesis of new acrylamido monomers, yielding sieving matrices with longer lifetime and better resistance to hydrolysis
- A new family of sieving matrices based on amphiphilic polymer solutions that can be switched from liquid-like behaviour (for automated replacement of used sieving medium) to gel-like behaviour (for good separation properties)
- The development and evaluation of new reporter chemistry schemes yielding a better signal/noise ratio, in particular energy-transfer dyes and lanthanide complexes
- The use of pulsed-field capillary electrophoresis to increase the size range separable
- A new technology for mass production of very low cost capillary arrays
- An original detection scheme based on imaging techniques.
The project is a continuation in part of project n BMH4-CT96-1158, Capillary Array DNA Sequencing, called CADS I in the following for the sake of terseness. This project received only partial financing, so that it was decided to reduce its duration to two years, and its scope to an exploration of the different technological alternatives on small-scale prototypes. The aim of this second project is to use the information gathered by CADS I, to build an upgraded 96-capillary array for routine DNA sequencing.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics DNA
- social sciences sociology industrial relations automation
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry electrophoresis
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics genomes
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75231 Paris
France
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