Back at JPM Element teased that they would be coming out with the VITARI, a benchtop sequencer capable of generating whole genomes for $100. This would best Illumina’s list price of $200 with the NovaSeq X and be in the range of Ultima’s $80 genome, but with a desktop machine that would be smaller and...
After 10+ years of mostly silence, Roche is finally starting to lift the curtain on their nanopore sequencer. It’s based on a combination of Genia’s nanopore platform (acquired in 2014) and Stratos Genomics’ Xpandomer chemistry (acquired in 2020). (See my previous post for some more background.) While Roche didn’t reveal all of the details at...
It’s been an exciting couple of years for the sequencing market. Unless you’re a sequencing company, especially one named “Illumina”, and then maybe it’s been more terrifying. But for sequencing customers and those of us in the cheap seats, it’s been a fun ride compared to the previous five years or so when Illumina was...