SOLiD

Liquid crystals are a kind of matter that exists somewhere between a liquid and a solid. We can control the order of the liquid crystals used in liquid crystal displays with electricity. Think of it like a valve for light. We can open and close the valve by changing the alignment of the liquid crystals using electrical fields.

Todd Smith from Geospiza speaks at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 29, 2009.

Michael Rhodes of Applied Biosystems discusses the SOLiD System at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 27, 2009.

Shanmuga Sozhamannan of the Biological Defense Research Directorate at the Naval Medical Research Center discusses how next generation sequencing technologies can be applied to clinical and biothreat situations at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 28, 2009.

Amrita Pati of the DOE Joint Genome Institute's Genome Biology group talks about a computational pipeline that evaluates the accuracy of gene models in genomes and metagenomes at different stages of finishing at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 29, 2009.