Wizard Mini-preps

[stuart kuhstoss]

In Article <UhJyIBy00WBO47Xkh8 at andrew.cmu.edu>, "Glenda A. Baker"
<gb25+ at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>Hello everyone!
>
>There have been a lot of complaints about the new "Wizard Mini-preps"
>from Promega.  Has anyone out there has had a _good_ experience with
>them, and if so, for what applications?  We haven't tried them yet, but
>I was just wondering how carefully we need to conserve our left-over
>Magic Mini-preps!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Glenda Gertz
>Biological Sciences Dept.
>Carnegie Mellon University
>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
>
I've used Wizard preps with no problems.  The DNA has been used for
restriction digestion with various enzymes and also in automated fluorescent
sequencing.  My only complaint is that the new resin seems to settle out
faster than the old resin, so that when pipetting resin into a series of
tubes, the last aliquot has less resin.  I get around this by pipetting
fewer aliquots than I used to.

Stu Kuhstoss