What's the skinny on ALF vs LI-COR?

[pgegen at rnaworld.bio.ukans.edu]

In <1995Sep14.141932.310 at chmeds.ac.nz>, ajeffs at chmeds.ac.nz writes:
>I am currently involved in decision-making on the purchase of an automated 
>sequencer. Price wise, ABI 373/377 is ridiculous, and performance wise so 
>is the ABI 310. So its boiling down to a shoot-out btw the new ALFexpress
>from Pharmacia or the new LI-COR. I've had a single days hands-on demo with 
>the ALF, and it was pretty groovy, and an in-lab demo with the LI-COR has been 
>arranged. I would appreciate any feed-back from you sequencer types out there
>that use, or have had experience with, either ALF or LI-COR (or both), re.
>any foibles, glitches, hidden costs, good bits etc. that either machine may
>exhibit.
>
>
>Byeeeeeee
>
>Aaron Jeffs
>Cytogenetic and Molecular Oncology Unit
>Dept. of Pathology
>Christchurch School of Medicine
>Christchurch
>Nuke-free New Zealand
>
>ajeffs at chmeds.ac.nz


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