The myth of the complete genome is something that is not commonly known to active observers of genomic technologies. (The…
Oxford Nanopore, based in Oxford U.K., made a remarkable announcement that surprised many in February's AGBT meeting in Marco Island.…
A few days ago I reviewed in brief the history of Helicos Biosciences (HCLS), a company that held out the…
Recently I was asked what Roche would purchase when they said publicly that they "would not revisit Illumina, and will…
The next-generation sequencing market continues its downward trajectory - routinely violating Moore's Law by an estimated 3x, the cost per…
In every technological revolution, there is a first seminal breakthrough, a burst of commercial activity from many individual companies, and…
Complete Genomics is a startup business founded upon a particular idea - that the whole genome sequencing of human individuals…
If you've been following thus far, we've covered sequencing by pyrophosphate detection, sequencing by reversible terminators, and now we have…
As mentioned previously, there are three main methods of sequencing, the first being the pyrophosphate detection approach, and here is…
After preparation of the library (and careful quantitation) and preparation of the amplified template comes the main event: the sequencing…