Illumina announced a bunch of improvements one can expect in the future for its benchtop sequencer MiSeq and its big sequencer HiSeq 2500. Longer reads and more amount of data per run . Announcing the improvements at the JMP 2013, Illumina said its “new ordered array flow cell design will increase cluster density, enable higher [...]
Illumina Announces Future Upgrades for MiSeq and HiSeq 2500 at JMP 2013
January 8, 2013 by · 2 Comments
Illumina Introduces CLIA Certified Rapid Individual Genome Sequencing Service (IGS)
September 11, 2012 by · 3 Comments
Illumina announced that it will be offering rapid Individual Genome Sequencing (IGS) through its CLIA certified lab with a turn around of just two weeks. Illumina’s Rapid IGS service will be available only through a physician’s order and is designed to help doctors in diagnose and treatment decisions. Illumina claimed that it is the only CLIA-certified, [...]
Illumina Launches RapidTrack Whole Genome Sequencing Service with 14 Days Turn Around
June 21, 2012 by · 2 Comments
Illumina announced that it will be offering RapidTrack Whole Genome Sequencing Service using its HiSeq 2500 sequencers. Illumina claims that the FastTrack Sequencing Services that delivers a whole human genome in less than two weeks is the fastest turnaround time of any whole human genome sequencing service available today. Illumina’s RapidTrack WGS service is powered by [...]
lllumina’s HiSeq 2500 and HiSeq1500: What Can They Sequence?
May 14, 2012 by · 2 Comments
The high-throughput sequencing leader Illumina launched HiSeq 2500/1500, as an update from its earlier version of high-throughput sequencer HiSeq 2000/1000, in early this year. Illumina’s HiSeq 2500/1500 expected to be available sometime in the summer 2012. And this post is part of a series of posts looking at the Next-generation or Second generation high throughput [...]
Illumina Launches A New Faster Sequencer HiSeq 2500
January 17, 2012 by · 1 Comment
With one eye on putting genome sequencers to clinical use and another eye on its competitor life technologies’ Ion Proton I, Illumina launched a new version of its sequencer HISeq 2500. HiSeq® 2500 is Illumina’s next-generation sequencing system that that can allow researchers sequence an entire genome in approximately 24 hours, “Genome in a Day”. [...]
