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So is Illumina basically the "selling pickaxes during a gold rush" of this space?
by IBM 9y ago
So is Illumina basically the "selling pickaxes during a gold rush" of this space?
- killjoywashere 9y agoYes. Other cool sequencing out there, Pac Bio being the most frequent contender, but illumina has their HiSeq and MiSeq systems in the vast majority of human molecular pathology labs. I may be biased as I trained under their chief geneticist, who's now at UCSD, but I'm fairly confident that's a safe claim. The big issue, as I understand it, is QC. QC for illumina is well understood. QC for Pac Bio can hard.
- Gatsky 9y agoAdditionally, circulating tumor DNA is fragmented to short lengths, so there is no point in doing long read sequencing such as PacBio or Nanopore.