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Our Research Laboratory Automation group has been designed as a flexible entity within the MGH DNA Core to extend the benefits of laboratory automation to a diverse user group and to assist in the execution of a variety of molecular biology projects that require large-scale robotics support. The group offers standard and custom high-throughput sample processing services, including protocol development and implementation, for various molecular biology and genomics applications. Current services include bacterial colony picking & archiving, high throughput cDNA and siRNA library screening, library rearraying, DNA/RNA quantitation and normalization, site-directed mutagenesis, and protein expression and purification.