Projects

DNA Synthesis Scheduler

Institute : Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi
Programming Languages : C, MS Visual Basic
Operating System : MS Windows
Software Tools : MS Visual Studio, MS Excel
Team Size : 2
Duration : Dec. 2001 - Jan. 2002

Description:

ABI DNA Synthesizer makes 48 oligonucleotides in 4 banks in one run. It requires that the amount of nucleotide of each kind (A, T, C and G) be used in approximately equal amounts for each run of the machine. The software schedules the given oligonucleotides in such a way that for each run amount of each nucleotide used is in approximately equal amount and the wastage is the least.