How to Use sequencer in a Sentence
sequencer
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In a sense, the genome sequencer is almost like a smartphone.
—Polina Marinova, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2017
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At that point, the ground launch sequencer computer will stop the countdown and the test will end.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2022
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And also the Roland MC 4, which was like a programmable sequencer.
—David Chiu, Forbes, 3 July 2022
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My set up at the time was all electronic: sequencers and samples.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
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So, as the sequencer spun, the Facebook hunters fretted that, once again, nothing would come of a promising lead.
—Nicholas Thompson, Wired, 2 Nov. 2020
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The genome is understood through a machine called a sequencer.
—Caroline Catherman, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2021
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Such a fingerprint would not be as clear as catching DNA in a sequencer.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2018
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The bad sensor, which is not part of the sequencer, is not considered to be a flight instrument, Blevins said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
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The samples were then run through a DNA sequencer to reveal the airborne microbiome.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
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The main theme embraces the sound of dark folk music mixed with a thundering analog sequencer synth bass line.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
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To complete the wet dress test, NASA chose to mask the leak from the ground launch sequencer, the ground-side computer that controls the majority of the countdown.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2022
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But more often than not, synthesizers and sequencers are used to form sound waves from scratch.
—Shuja Haider, New York Times, 13 July 2017
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And yet there are potential advantages to the sequencer.
—New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
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Resynth is designed to look like a music sequencer, and solving the game’s puzzles is akin to making music.
—Michael Moore, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2018
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But then in 1998 Mr. Hunkapiller’s parent company, impressed by the speed of his new sequencers, decided to take on the job itself.
—Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
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All of Us will depend on prices falling for sequencing — and more sequencers being built.
—Gina Kolata, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018
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In many respects, a genetic sequencer is over-engineered for the task of simply testing for a virus.
—New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
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The scientists use a DNA sequencer — a machine roughly the size of an office copier — to read those patterns of building blocks and search for anomalies.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2021
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The sequencer contains a single sensor chip, which contains a membrane embedded with a bunch of nanopores—a fancy name for tiny holes.
—Sarah Scoles, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2019
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And Illumina’s latest top-of-the-range sequencer — the NovaSeq — still costs almost $1 million.
—Time, 12 Oct. 2017
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The Atlas and Agena both performed well, everything looked great, but then a timer in the spacecraft's central computer and sequencer failed.
—Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2018
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Having grown up with a studio in her parents' Long Island home, Tucci had learned how to write and record vocals and produce on a Korg sequencer at a young age.
—Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2019
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The risk was not zero, because Grail and a handful of his nascent-stage competitors rely on Illumina’s sequencers to process their tests.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
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With all the testing turnarounds, that means that genomes coming off the sequencer are usually from samples collected 10 to 14 days prior.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
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At some computers down the hall from the sequencers, the maps help another team of researchers assemble sequence fragments into a full T2T genome.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
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Genome sequencer 23andMe, for example, has DNA from its 5 million customers.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018
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Using a pocket-sized gene sequencer, his lab assembled the variant’s entire genome within eight hours.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
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During a transition between the ground launch sequencer computer and the flight software, the flight software flagged the hydrogen leak as a reason to stop the countdown with 29 seconds left.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 June 2022
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There are even pocket-sized sequencers that allow people to analyze DNA in space stations, classrooms, and jungle camps.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017
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Utilizing synths, sequencers and drum machines, the trio were trailblazers in the electronic genre, ushering in the Eighties electro sound.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
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