BioMicroCenter:ABRF09

New Products
Agilent This are particularly useful as they will be able to measure the amount of DNA being loaded onto the Illumina Sequencer.
 * High Sensitivity DNA chips for the BioAnalyzer

Illumina
 * Upgrade for the GAII - The GAIIx -> Adds 20% more imaging space
 * Looking at runs of 150nt per side
 * moving to ordered arrays which will allow higher density.
 * Currently 20-30 GB per run -> 90GB per run by 2010

Other Platforms Helicose is now out. No amplification required. 600-800 mil. reads per run @ 25nt. (illumina = 160mil)

Solid = 700mil/slide

Stuart S. Levine 20:56, 9 February 2009 (EST)