It also depends on what you are doing in the lab. The sequencers for most technologies are not cheap. The prep kits arent cheap. The assays take time. Plus for

It also depends on what you are doing in the lab. The sequencers for most technologies are not cheap. The prep kits arent cheap. The assays take time. Plus for a lot of labs that sequencer might get used once a year. It just doesn’t make sense to invest to have this tech in house especially when it might end up obsolete in a few years, after you used it a whopping 10 times.