Next Generation Sequencing, Marketing, and the Genomic Revolution

Illumina NextSeq

First Customer PhiX Data from the NextSeq 500 4

June 12, 2014 in Illumina NextSeq / Next Gen Sequencing / NextSeq 500 tagged illumina / nextseq by Dale Yuzuki

Illumina announced in January at the JP Morgan Healthcare conference the NextSeq 500, which was trumpeted (at least at the level of press releases and public relations) of being available immediately. Knowing first-hand how difficult it is to launch a new system, I had expected the first systems to ship […]

The upcoming Proton PII and the NextSeq 500 11

March 10, 2014 in Companies / Illumina NextSeq / Ion Torrent Proton / Next Gen Sequencing / Sequencing tagged nextseq / NGS / pii / proton by Dale Yuzuki

There has been a lot of publicity around the NextSeq 500 from Illumina, and it appears to have been designed to compete directly against Ion Torrent’s upcoming PII chip. Thanks to a visit to upstate New York last week, I met Dr. Sridar Chittur who told me how important it […]