Those are valid points, and we can go further and debate how suitable Ion is as a platform even for novel and structural variants. However, in terms of what Ion

Those are valid points, and we can go further and debate how suitable Ion is as a platform even for novel and structural variants. However, in terms of what Ion promised early on, and the talks they gave at genetic sequencing conferences -- the chip is far from the complete machine. Maybe I'm getting a little too semantical here, but this panasonic device does everything on the chip.