Next Generation Sequencing

According to a recent press release, Illumina expects to increase their Genome Analyzer sequencing throughput per run by about 6 times in 2009 - following a 15 fold increase in 2008 this gives them a whopping 90 fold increase in just two years.

Costs are decreasing as throughput is increasing, and a 25x coverage of a human genome is expected to cost only 10,000 USD at the end of 2009, according to Illumina.