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Keith Robison's avatar

Illumina’s roadmap is now talking about 2x500 reads

But they probably won’t go much further, as 500bp is about the limit for the current patterned flowcells (my wet lab colleagues cued me in to this) - don’t know if that is well geometry or the enzymology, but inserts over that size are disfavored

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Mr wibble's avatar

What you described from Roche is 15 years of work, without having to commercialise, it is still materially behind ONT and at best competitive with ILMN or Ultima

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