- A Reddit /r/askscience thread was highlighted that discusses the current practical read-length limit of DNA sequencing, with participants citing ~5 kb as the best achievable today.  
- Microfluidic chromosome-sorting was raised as a pre-sequencing step; kanzure pointed to a large curated collection of microfluidics papers at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/microfluidics/ covering chromosome sorting, PCR, and DNA analysis.  
- Specific microfluidic PCR resources shared include a 2010 review on miniaturized PCR chips (gkm389) and an integrated nanoliter-scale Sanger-sequencing bioprocessor paper, both available in the same repository.  
- Real-time single-polymerase DNA sequencing (PacBio-style) was noted as a now-famous advance, with the 2009 paper linked for reference.  
- A high-fidelity gene-synthesis workflow that uses high-throughput pyrosequencing to verify and retrieve error-free DNA fragments was also circulated.  
- The Robotic Open Platform (roboticopenplatform.org) was introduced as an open-hardware initiative releasing complete CAD, schematics, and build docs for community robotics projects.