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The battle for sequencing supremacy

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Which companies are leading the pack in terms of market share of the sequencing sector? Michael Eisenstein reports.

This next-generation sequencing (NGS) market, with at least five platforms, is only the latest salvo in the struggle to rule the sequencing market, with at least five NGS technologies now competing in the sector and several new alternatives waiting in the wings. And as costs fall and sequencing quality climbs, these technologies are no longer confined to a handful of high-powered genome centers, but are appearing in laboratories both big and small—unprecedented progress toward the oft-cited goal of democratizing sequencing. “Today, you can have an idea in the morning, collect DNA in the afternoon, start sequencing in the evening and then sit down at the end of the day and start digesting the data,” says Christopher Mason, assistant professor of computational genomics at Cornell University's Weill Medical College in New York.

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