This room was partly recreated in Jurassic Park: Trespasser. InGen fully sequenced the genomes of 15 different dinosaur species in three years with a budget of $30 million. The sequencers are run by two Cray X-MP supercomputers. Against the wall of a chilled room there is a row of waist-high stainless-steel boxes, which are the sequencers. The sequencers are shown to the endorsement team by Henry Wu. In the Jurassic Park novel John Hammond used 24 Hamachi-Hood automatic DNA sequencers to sequence the dinosaur DNA. Multiple fully automated sequencing methods exist today (see Wikipedia for more information). The DNA sequencing technique was rapidly improved in the 21st century. In the Jurassic Park novel Bob Morris says that InGen had bought 24 of these Hood sequencers. In 1986 Leroy Hood's laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and Smith announced the first semi-automated sequencing machine. In the 70s and 80s DNA had to be sequenced by hand, making it a time and cost consuming process. This nucleotide order is the main information storaged in the DNA molecule. DNA sequencing is a technique to determine the order of the four bases - adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine - in a strand of DNA.
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