There are many reasons why wasting a grad student on this problem (rather than a tech) is bad. I say this with a lot of experience: I was that grad student and

There are many reasons why wasting a grad student on this problem (rather than a tech) is bad. I say this with a lot of experience: I was that grad student and I was the guy automating the lab and the guy setting up the compute infrastructure. I think core facilities are better candidate than individual professor labs.