Benchtop Sequencer Comparison paper

31 May 2012

In case you haven't seen our recent paper, you can download the paper here (subscription required): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2198

Performance comparison of benchtop high-throughput sequencing platforms
Nature Biotechnology advance online publication published online 22 April 2012
Nicholas J Loman, Raju V Misra, Timothy J Dallman, Chrystala Constantinidou, Saheer E Gharbia, John Wain & Mark J Pallen

Here is a press release on the blog of our newly launched Institute of Microbiology and Infection: http://imicrobham.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/performance-comparison-of-benchtop-high.html

And here are some links to the lively coverage in the blogosphere:

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n5/full/nbt.2198.html

http://www.nature.com/news/next-generation-genome-sequencers-compared-1.10497
http://flxlexblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/fast-genome-sequencing-of-pathogenic-bacteria-which-benchtop-instrument-to-choose/
http://core-genomics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/battle-of-benchtopsmiseq-vs-ion-vs-454.html
http://imicrobham.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/performance-comparison-of-benchtop-high.html

http://flxlexblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/loman-et-al-reflects-the-past-not-the-present-a-rebuttal/

http://massgenomics.org/2012/04/comparison-of-benchtop-sequencers.html

http://www.biotechniques.com/news/Battle-of-the-Benchtop-Sequencers/biotechniques-329861.html

http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/life-tech-illumina-ramp-campaigns-battle-benchtop-sequencing-market

The paper is currently the most downloaded on the Nature Biotechnology web site!