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What is Santa Baby
This city, not Sydney, is the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
I’m a book written with only four letters, a copy of me lives in nearly every one of your cells, and you can’t read me without a sequencer.
What is DNA?
This red-roofed beachfront hotel in Coronado opened in 1888 and appeared in the 1959 film ‘Some Like It Hot.’
What is Hotel del Coronado?
Illumina has been lighting up genomes since this year, when the Backstreet Boys were topping the charts and Illumina was just getting started.
What is 1998?
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What is Blue Christmas
A ball sitting at the top of a hill has this type of energy, which is stored and ready to be released.
What is potential energy?
I have keys but no locks, and space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go in.
What is a keyboard?
Opened in 1945 and now a museum on the San Diego waterfront, this aircraft carrier is a popular tourist attraction.
What is the USS Midway?
In 2007, Illumina acquired this sequencing company for roughly $600 million, gaining the technology behind its core chemistry.
What is Solexa?
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What is Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Of the five Great Lakes, this is the only one located entirely within the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
What is short?
In 1998, the same year Illumina was founded, the San Diego Padres reached the World Series but lost to this team.
Who are the New York Yankees?
When Illumina announced the NovaSeq X Plus in 2022, it highlighted that the system could bring the cost of a genome down to roughly this amount.
What is $200?
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What is I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus
The Roman numeral MCMXCVIII equals this number.
What is 1998?
I have no beginning and no end, I hang on the door but never knock, and I welcome guests without a word.
What is a wreath?
This La Jolla research institute, founded in 1960 by the developer of the polio vaccine, overlooks the Pacific from a design by architect Louis Kahn.
What is the Salk Institute?
This Tufts University professor and Illumina co-founder developed the fiber-optic bead array technology that the company was originally built on.
Who is David Walt?
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What is chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Granite and obsidian are examples of this type of rock, formed when molten magma or lava cools and hardens.
What is igneous?
I’m how many gifts are given in total across a famous twelve-day song.
What is 364?
In 1916, this physician founded the San Diego Zoo after hearing the roar of animals left over from the Panama-California Exposition.
Who is Harry Wegeforth?
In the two-channel sequencing chemistry used on instruments like the NextSeq, this base is the one that produces no signal at all, which is why long runs of it can show up as artifacts when the signal fades.
What is guanine (G)?