10X Releases A Cheaper Instrument!

10X have released a cheaper version of the Chromium X costing $25K. It’s limited to running the 3’ gene expression assays. Building a $25K Chromium controller seems very feasible, and based on tearing down an old version of the instrument, to component cost is likely <$5000. I also went documented the pnenmatic system. There doesn’t seem to be any techn…