Feb 11

Is PacBio going to take the X prize?

Tag: Technology — rforsberg @ 21:26

PacBioMystery company, PacBio, has revealed parts of their ambitions at a genomics conference last week. In 2010 they plan to introduce an instrument that should eventually be able to produce 100 gigabases of sequence data per hour. That corresponds to a 10-fold coverage of the human genome in about 20 minutes!!

PacBio has not signed up for the Archon X prize for genomics yet, but if they can deliver they should be considered a serious contestant.

A bit of background on PacBio’s technology.

2 Responses to “Is PacBio going to take the X prize?”

  1. Is PacBio going to take the X prize? says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 21:45

    [...] Arizona Jobs & Employment wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt [...]

  2. Next Generation Sequencing » VisiGen to offer $1,000 Genome Sequencing Service says:
    February 13th, 2008 at 14:04

    [...] The company expects read-lengths of around 1,000 bases and a throughput of up to 50 megabases per second. At 100% utilization, this is 180 gigabases per hour and thus even more than what PacBio plans for, as Dr. Forsberg mentioned the other day. [...]

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