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...
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...
Most sequencing platform companies made their big announcements ahead of AGBT, including MGI. However, MGI hinted that there would be more to come in 2023, and it turns out AGBT is recapturing at least a little bit of its former glory of being THE place to make a big announcement. MGI, under the marketing efforts...
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....