It’s an exciting time in the sequencing industry. After years of dominance, Illumina started facing competition on all fronts in 2022. Element Biosciences and Singular Genomics launched their desktop sequencers. The US market opened up for MGI (via the Complete Genomics brand that never quite went away). And Ultima Genomics announced the early access program...
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2022 Sequencing Market Share – Same As It Ever Was (For Now)
Since 2022 saw an explosion of new competition in the sequencing market, I thought this would be a good time to review the market share breakdown for the various players. This should serve as a good reference point going forward to see what kind of impact all the new players will make. Rather than relying...
Element Beats Illumina to the $200 Genome
It has been a predictably pedestrian JP Morgan Healthcare Conference for the genomics market. Illumina, PacBio, and Ultima Genomics all made big announcements earlier this year. As such, JPM is more of a “status update” for them. The two non-stealth candidates for juicy updates are Singular Genomics and Element Biosciences. On Monday Singular came out...
2022 In Review
With the JP Morgan update season about to get in full swing, I thought it might be a good time to review the sequencing field and where we stand at the beginning of 2023. The big news was, of course, that after years of having a virtual monopoly, Illumina faces a bevy of new competitors....