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Illumina’s acquisition of PacBio no-brainer for FTC/CMA

May 27, 2019August 22, 2019Commentary

About five minutes after Illumina announced their intention to acquire PacBio, my phone started ringing with market analysts, fund managers, and journalists all looking for the answer to one question: Will this merger pass anti-trust review? While I can’t say whether it WILL, I can emphatically say that it SHOULD. Read on to see why...

Sequencing Generations – What’s in a Name?

May 25, 2018August 22, 2019Uncategorized

Every so often someone will ask about the various “generations” of DNA sequencing or a company will claim to have the latest generation – 3rd, 4th, even “last”. (Hey, Genia, if you don’t come out with something soon, I’m going to start calling your platform “late” generation sequencing – as in “late to the party”...