Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-1259419-20150217114529

On the JurassicWorld site you can see a lab worker use a DNA sequencer.

After turning a few stones I've discovered that this is the real-life Ion Proton Sequencer. Here is a video about this machine:



The Ion Proton sequencer can sequence an entire genome (DNA) in a day for only $1,000. I like that they used an actual machine in this film. However, there are also DNA sequencers mentioned in previous JP media: Hood (novel), Hamachi-Hood (Trespasser), and Hammond XB-20 (Masrani website).

The Masrani website says about the Hammond XB-20 machine:

the Hammond XB-20 can decode and correct the genome of any extinct creature in under an hour.

I wonder what they need the Ion Proton sequencer for when they have a more superior machine to do the sequencing ("decode") and more. 