Ion Torrent Systems Presents $50,000 Electronic Sequencer at AGBT
March 02, 2010
Ion Torrent Systems Presents $50,000 Electronic Sequencer at AGBT
The instrument will cost less than $50,000 and generate "hundreds of millions of bases" and "millions" of highly accurate reads per run, each several hundred bases in length, according to Jonathan Rothberg, the company's co-founder and CEO. Each run will take about an hour and cost less than $500.
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