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Roche’s Fantasy Sequencer Slowly Turning Into a Fantastic Reality

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025Commentary, NewsLeave a comment

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...

AI generated image that represents a futuristic nanopore DNA sequencer.

Roche has entered the conversation…

February 16, 2025February 19, 2025UncategorizedOne Comment

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...