How a little bug got involved in a big battle: MiSeq vs IonThere has been a lot said about the recent sequencing of E coli from the recent outbreak in Germany. Over five isolates have been sequenced on almost every sequencing platform, HiSeq, 454, Ion […]
So here it is, I was given one of these at AGBT and there is a picture in the MiSeq brochure. I thought I’d share an image with anyone wondering what they look like.You can see it is very different from a HiSeq flowcell in […]
Because they order 128 the day a new instrument is anounced and have deep pockets.I have been following developments at BGI over the past three or so years and was as stunned as anyone else at their announcment of a 128 HiSeq 2000 order in […]
I have just renewed several service contracts and this time of year always leaves me feeling a bit cold about how much money has just been spent. For my lab the bill is well over $200,000. That is nearly 50 Genomes at todays prices, and […]
When Illumina announced the launch of MiSeq in January 2011 shortly before AGBT there was a lot of noise in the community on what this instrument might do. There was an equal amount of noise from companies offering competing systems and their early users. This […]
