All The DNA Sequencing Companies

Shawn has a really good list of current (and dead) DNA sequencing companies. I also had a list which I stopped updating in 2020.

I wanted to try and list up every active DNA sequencing company I’m aware of, it includes a few that are not on Shawn’s list and excludes all the ones he has marked as dead. Perhaps you are aware of some I’m not! Here’s my list:

On Market

Illumina, BGI, Element, Ultima Genomics, Thermo (Ion Torrent), Oxford Nanopore, Pacific Biosciences, Qitan Technologies, SeqLL, Singular Genomics

Not Sure

PolySeq, Geneus, MeTech, Salus, Gene Sense, One-chip, GeneMind, AxBio

In Development

Armonica, Cygnus Bio, Depixus, DNAe, Roche, iNanoBio, Quantapore, Single Technologies, XGenomes, Universal Sequencing Technology, InSilixa (Danaher?), Caerus Molecular,Acorn Genetics, Swan Genomics, Stream Genomics

Dead?

RH Genetech, Genvida, Personal Genomics, Sequlite/Fapon

UPDATE: Nooma appears to be dead and I removed them from the list.

UPDATE2: I have been informed that 454.bio is no longer active, and that Lunar Bio is not DNA sequencing!

UPDATE3: I’ve moved a few other companies to “Dead” which I’ve been told are no longer active. Further confirmation welcome!

I’m sure I’ve missed some. If you know of any others, please ping me (new@sgenomics.org, or via the Discord).

We’ve seen a number of companies die since I last listed up DNA sequencing companies. But overall, there’s still a healthy ecosystem of ~40 companies that appear to be in active development. However the big shift is the far larger number of companies based in China (~15/40) compared to only 3 last time round!