The Rationalized Illumina Instrument Lineup
About a year ago I wrote a post called “Rationalizing the Illumina Instrument Lineup”. Here I suggested they discontinue the iSeq, MiniSeq, MiSeq, NextSeq 550 and NovaSeq 6000. Then bring up a new instrument (I called it the uSeq) to replace all the low end instruments.
Illumina have now basically done this by announcing that the iSeq, MiSeq, and MiniSeq will not be supported after 2029. And having released a new instrument (The MiSeq i100) which covers the throughput of these devices.