HiSeq 2000 .. not such a lame name after all?
Eyebrows were raised when we heard that the latest Solexa-technology sequencer would be called the Illumina HiSeq 2000. This kind of futuristic name was big in the 80s – remember Grecian 2000? – but in 2010 it sounded a bit on the lame side when we first heard it… but were Illumina just toying with [...]
Landed: First Illumina HiSeq Machines Advertised
In case you didn’t see the announcement already, the Illumina HiSeq can produce 200 gigabases of sequence data and 2 billion reads per run. When it was launched we knew that BGI in China had signed an agreement to buy 128 of these machines but no-one has fessed up to owning one just yet. Things [...]
New Illumina Announced – BGI to become world’s largest genome centre
The ritual of checking Twitter with my coffee this morning brought much excited chattering about the new Illumina sequencer, the HiSeq 2000 which was announced yesterday. I won’t cover this in detail as there are already great blog posts up from Daniel McArthur, David Dooling and Genomics Lawyer. Bottom-line: $650,000 for the machine, $10,000 for [...]