It's great for developers, and fairly simple to get started using the provided sample code.

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Over the next two years, the Atom lineage will catch up with its larger brethren, first with the launch of a 32nm Atom, code named Cedar Trail, which will sample this year and ship in volume in 2012, and then with a 22nm part, which will ship in volume in 2013.

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Instead of labels, GenVault puts a tiny bit of unique rice DNA into each human cell sample, a sort of permanent bar code for the samples.

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Whereas the PGM can deliver 100, 000 bases of DNA code in a two-hour time frame, plus sample preperation, the MiSeq can deliver 250, 000 in eight hours, including prep time.

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