Illumina Strikes Back in Gene Machine Wars With MiSeq

Jan 12, 2011, 10:45 AM by Michael Croft

Forbes.com | Illumina is launching a smaller, more affordable next-generation sequencing machine, the MiSeq, which will cost $125,000 and will provide some competition for the newly released Personal Genome Machine from Ion Torrent.

January 12, 2011 | Illumina is launching a smaller, more affordable next-generation sequencing machine, the MiSeq, which will cost $125,000 and will provide some competition for the newly released Personal Genome Machine from Ion Torrent. It is said to be competitive on key measures like sequencing speed, and size (approximately two square feet), and the amount of DNA sequence it can read. Forbes.com