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Article: Illumina Announces Scale-Up of Genome Analyzers at the Broad Institute.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 18, 2009
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Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced that the Broad Institute has purchased 30 additional Genome Analyzers, increasing its total installed base of Illumina systems to 89 (see also Illumina, Inc.).
"We've significantly expanded our fleet of Genome Analyzers to ramp up our sequencing capabilities in whole genome, whole exome, and whole transcriptome analysis," said Robert Nicol, director of Sequencing Operations at the Broad Institute. "We are happy with the technology's accuracy, ease of use and scalability, as well as continued system improvements that have recently enabled us to generate multiple runs with more than 50 gigabases of high quality sequence data." ...