Manufacturing Sanger Sequencing Polymer

The quality of polymer affects the quality of your sequencing results. Learn how polymer for Sanger sequencing by capillary electrophoresis is made, and about our commitment to providing high quality polymer to ensure your reproducible results.
Everyday, labs all over the world look at this bottle and they might see just a polymer that's used for sequencing by capillary electrophoresis. But when really look at it, it's not just a bottle of polymer -- it's a bottle that needs to perform day-in and day-out in your lab, giving you consistent results to advance discovery and improve life. And with so much depending on this little bottle, it all starts with a beautifully complex journey. The starting materials in polymer are actually quite straight-forward, but that's not what makes a great sequencing polymer. What makes a great polymer is meticulous attention to detail, and our unwavering commitment to researchers like you all over the world. This all starts with team of passionate people in this building... and really big reactors.

The raw materials are flooded into these giant stainless steel reactors, each holding hundreds of gallons of materials. Reactions of this size require intelligent software and systems to continuously monitor quality and ensure batch-to-batch consistency. Now this polymer is ready to be outfitted in its appropriate container. That means we need to outfit ourselves for clean-room conditions to ensure your get the cleanest products possible. There is where the polymer takes the form that you use everyday -- POP4, POP6, POP7 -- in any volume you need for your research. We package thousands of kits every week in this room. But before any one of these boxes gets to your lab, we run the polymer through exhaustive quality control testing.

The mission of the quality control lab is test our polymer under the same conditions your experience every day. This means having every type of Genetic Analyzer on hand so we stand behind the polymer's performance when it arrives in your lab. The other half of quality, the half you'll never really see, is not a process -- but a culture. We take this seriously, never settling for good enough, and constantly questioning how we can make things even better. And it's only when the highest standards are met, that we allow this product to pass through these doors and around world.

Whether your journey is taking you through cancer research, drug discovery, GMO detection, forensics, you'll see that this it's not just bottle of polymer. We can't wait to see what you discover.

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