Making Sense of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
IonTorrent beats Illumina’s MiSeq again in the benchtop sequencing machine market, according to the latest report by Macquarie report. BioIT world reporting on the Macquarie’s analysis says that overall the benchtop sequencers market is led by IonTorrent with 62% of the benchtop sequencing market share and MiSeq with the remaining 38% of the market share. IonTorrent’s PGM has [...]
Illumina announced the fourth quarter financial results yesterday. Illumina’s revenue during the fourth quarter of 2012 is $309 million, which is a 24% increase compared to the revenue of fourth quarter of 2011. Overall in the year 2012, Illumina’s revenue increased 9% from $1.06 billion in year 2011 to $1.15 billion in the year 2012. [...]
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 announced the winners of Illumina MiSeq Grant/contest at ASHG 2012. Ramunas Stepanauskas from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, Karin Haack from Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, and Stephen Doyle from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia are the three lucky winners of Illumina MiSeq grant. Here is the brief summary of the proposal from the [...]
Illumina announces MiSeq grant and three grant winners will receive a free MiSeq, Illumina’s benchtop high-throughput sequencer. All Illumina wants is a 500-word proposal on how you would use Illumina MiSeq to discover, innovate, or help your research. Illumina’s MiSeq grant application is open to all researchers across the world. No prior experience with next-generation sequencing [...]
Next-gen benchtop genome sequencers are here from the three major sequencing vendors Illumina, Ion Torrent (Life Technologies), and Roche. Illumina has MiSeq, Life Technologies has Ion Torrent PGM, and Roche has 454 GS Junior. These benchtop genome sequencers promise to bring the sequencing to individual labs by cutting down the size and the cost. But, [...]
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”. [...]
