The Ion Torrent Proton compared to the Illumina HiSeq 2500

Photo by Dale Yuzuki (spotted this gem at a friend’s house)

There is a lot of interest in what is the Next Big Thing in next-generation sequencing. The case can be made that the clinical application of NGS (either targeted sequencing or WES or WGS for cancer genomics) will be that growth driver, but I suspect it will be the next generation of next-generation sequencing.

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