Messaging Counts

Myrecent piece on SeqLL's reboot of the Helicos sequencing technology attracted a number of helpful comments either on blogger or via email.  Several of which pointed out the high suitability of this box for counting applications such as expression profiling, ChIP-seq and copy number analysis. Julia Karow of GenomeWeb graciously provided me with a copy of her piece, which underscored the value of GW in having real reporters dig into a s ubject.  Much of what she dug up concerns SeqLL's future plans and for the near term mostly confirms suspicions that the technology will mostly look like the previous Helicos box, just scaled down.  But Julia also got out of SeqLL some of the numbers that are shockingly absent from the press release, such as the throughput (though I don't see the number of channels, a key aspect of this technology as covered below). My correspondents also pointed out a number of careless errors in the piece: I sliced $100K off the price of the PacBio Sequel (doesn't mean you can't try to get them to honor it!) and the In Sequence brand is long-gone from GenomeWeb's site.Read more »

Source: Omics! Omics! - October 24, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs