Servo driven electric motors, mounted on tubular tracks, have helped researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics to compile sufficient laboratory data so they can file their first draft report on the Human Genome Project (HGP). This on-going research is being conducted in Berlin at the Resource Centre and Primary Database of the German HGP.The genetic research uses X, Y and Z cartesian robots, driven by Linear Drives' Thrust Tube motors, to perform three tasks: high density filters spotting, clone-picking and rearraying. "The robots' tasks could not be done manually," explains Gunther Zehetner, the Resource Centre's scientific director. "A typical day includes three runs, each of 15 filters per robot." With an average of 30,000 clones per filter, this research thereby depends on the robots executing 1,350,000 spots per day.
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