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		<title>Product Review: BioTek Microflo liquid dispensing machine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of pictures of the BioTek Microflo liquid dispenser. Device with hatch open and spring tension unlocked: Device with hatch open and spring tension locked: This machine has both serial RS-232 and USB; however, the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/461">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Microplate Standard Dimensions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The mission of the Microplate Standards Working Group (MSWG) is to recommend, develop, and maintain standards to facilitate automated processing of microplates on behalf of and for acceptance by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Once &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/439">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Add Streaming Video to any Bio-lab!</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/416</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Combining an inexpensive (under $15) USB webcam with free VLC media player software, it is simple to add password-protected internet streaming video for remote users to any lab.  VLC includes the ability to capture from a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/416">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>More on Bio-lab Automation &#8211; Software for Controlling FIAlab Devices for Microfluidics</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/407</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perl software to control lab syringe pump and valve device, for biology automation, initial version finished today. Works great.  Next, need to add the network code, it can be controlled remotely and in synchronization with other &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/407">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Perl Bio-Robotics module, Robotics.pm and Robotics::Tecan</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/386</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FYI for Bioperl developers: I am developing a module for communication with biology robotics, as discussed recently on #bioperl, and I invite your comments. Currently this module talks to a Tecan genesis workstation robot. Other vendors &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/386">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Centrifuge the column(s) at ≥10,000×g (13,000 rpm) for 1 minute, then discard the flow-through.&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A basic equation of physics, for those out there building their own centrifuges: What are RPM, RCF, and g force and how do I convert between them? The magnitude of the radial force generated in a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/380">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>3G Cellphone as Biotech Tool: &#8220;Cellular Phone Enabled Non-Invasive Tissue Classifier&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/360</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent paper in PLoS ONE describes a diagnostic system which uses a common 3G cellphone with bluetooth to assist in point-of-care measurement of tissues, from tissue samples previously taken, with remote data analysis [1].  The &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/360">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Low Cost Microcontroller-based Digital Microfluidics using &#8220;Processing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/338</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now tested the digital microfluidics board via microcontroller. The digital microfluidics board moves a liquid droplet via Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD).  The microcontroller switches the high voltage via a switching board (pictured below, using Panasonic PhotoMOS chips), &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/338">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Playing with the $100K Robots for Biology Automation</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/318</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Tecan Genesis Workstation 200: It&#8217;s an industrial benchtop robot for liquid handling with multiple arms for tray handling and pipetting. The robot&#8217;s operations are complex, so an integrated development environment is used to program it &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/318">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>HVPS for Systems Biology: A Low Cost, High Voltage Power Supply with Schematics + Board Layout</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/303</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have designed this high voltage, low current power supply for various experiments in systems &#38; synthetic biology. I have cleaned up the design and I am placing the schematic and board layout online below!  This &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/303">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Train the Biology Robot: Have the Machine Read the Protocol and Automate Itself</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/290</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagine reading these kinds of instructions and performing such a task for a few hours: &#8220;Resuspend pelleted bacterial cells in 250 µl Buffer P1 and transfer to a micro-centrifuge tube. Ensure that RNase A has been &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/290">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analog Data Acquisition from USB Microcontroller using the &#8220;Processing&#8221; Language</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/277</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Building on the previous two mini-projects, I have a mini-graphical data acquisition project now running under the Processing language, getting real-world signals from the USB microcontroller (which is a Microchip PIC on a UBW Board from &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/277">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blinky LED &#8216;Hello World&#8217; using USB Microcontroller in &#8216;Processing&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/273</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every good embedded systems hardware project begins with a blinking LED (or toggling level as seen on the oscilloscope).  In Processing.org language, there&#8217;s the opportunity for both, since the built-in graphics allow for data display as &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/273">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using the Processing.org Language with Microcontrollers</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/270</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Media-technology engineers at MIT have created a computer language and easy-to-use runtime environment called Processing, hosted at processing.org.  I wrote a small code snip for accessing the PIC microcontroller from a USB port, using Processing; it&#8217;s &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/270">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Apple iPhone 3.0 as next generation Biomedical device</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/268</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s developer preview today, of iPhone 3.0 software, included the interesting news of support for external accessories, either connected through the physical docking connector or through Bluetooth wireless. A spokesman from Johnson &#38; Johnson announced an &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/268">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Synthetic Biology Conference 4.0 videos now online</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/265</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Watch the Synthetic Biology 4.0 conference videos online. <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/265">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Build a Spectrophotometer (Schematics included) as a DIY Project</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across this published paper.  Most skunkwork types seem to buy used equipment via ebay.    This article explains how to build a spectrophotometer with schematics, illustrations, and photos.  The circuit is simple:  a photoresistor, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/239">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Genetically Engineer Bacteria and/or Yeast using Sound (Ultrasound, Sonoporation)</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/192</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone in the BioBricks realm seems to use a standard method for modifying their organisms: chemical transformation. Yet there is another method which is very promising. In chemical transformation [3], some standard bacteria is grown, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/192">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 3 of 5: “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” by James Tisdall</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/114</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my previous write-ups of Part 1 and Part 2, I traced the Perl code and examples in the first half of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, highlighting different approaches to bioinformatics &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/114">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Next Generation Tech for DNA Sequencing</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/98</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say an organism is successfully modified and seems to be performing a portion of it&#8217;s synthetically designed biological tasks.  Several questions are raised:  has the organism evolved, during replication, from it&#8217;s original design?  Is the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/98">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 2 of 5: &#8220;Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics&#8221; by James Tisdall</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/36</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Part 1 of 5 review of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, left off at Chapter 8, just before Tisdall explains associative arrays, gene expression, FASTA files, genomic databases, and restriction sites. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/36">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 1 of 5: &#8220;Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics&#8221; by James Tisdall</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/15</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a specialized field, Bioinformatics is rather young.  It can be difficult to find universities which teach bioinformatics.  Bioinformatics can refer to many different types of tasks &#8212; from using programs and data without any computer &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/15">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Smallest Organisms &#038; Their Importance</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/6</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JonathanCline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Biology is faced with the problem:  the field in general does not understand much of what it studies.  One method of solving this is to study the smallest organisms known, in an effort to &#8220;understand 100% &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/6">More<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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