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  1. Ask BN: Anyone running a lab entirely on second-hand equipment? Ask BNDIYbio & Community Labs 16 points | garage_genome | | 6 comments

    Anyone running a lab entirely on second-hand equipment?

    Context, constraints and what I have already tried are below — replies with concrete numbers appreciated over general encouragement.

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[–] buffer17 | 6 points | link

This is the third time this month someone has posted a "cheap X" build where the cost excludes the thing that actually costs money. Where is the temperature controller in that BOM?

[–] buffer38 | 5 points | link

Sample temperature, measured with a thermocouple in a dummy tube of mineral oil. Plot is in the repo under docs/thermal.

[–] primer32 | 1 point | link

Fair. The preprint does have ONT data in supplementary S4, though the coverage is thin.

[–] incubate21 | 5 points | link

We ran this protocol in our community lab last month. Two of five transformations failed until we dropped the heat shock to 42 s. Worth adding a note.

[–] micron38 | 4 points | link

It is in there — line 14, the $22 board. The expensive part historically was the Peltier driver and that is what got cheap.

[–] pipette_punk | 2 points | link

Off-target analysis with GUIDE-seq only tells you about the sites you could capture. I would want long-read whole-genome on at least a few animals before "no detectable" goes in a title.