[strob]

I updated and modified the list

Many thanks for all the input!!!

[bioinfosm]

I am in favor of adding them by request (by users or vendors). It looks like there are a lot of companies/technologies and it would get cluttered quickly if a forum existed for each one before there are users/vendors who would post to the site.

I agree. Thats a good balance to avoid clutter, and at the same time remain open for the new ones..

[drio]

What about querying the database to see the number threads per technology. If > X we create a forum.

Opening them by user/vendor request sounds fine to me too.

[ECO]

Good suggestions all. I'll keep an eye out for too much discussion about any single vendor overwhelming this forum, or for new instrument releases. Thanks.

[brjordan]

Congratulations to Strob for this very useful list and for the working links. This is very helpful and informative, good work!

[cdragon]

A nice list!

Are there any information about whether each company provides commercial sequencing services?

[krobison]

Look at this thread for service providers http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthr...p?t=948&page=4

[msincan]

here is a nice evolving GDocs spreadsheet if you did not know.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvaxS3m5rl-9dHdtUGRtaGlsZWNFNWJleDRXaUhQTHc&hl=en

[KevinLam]

I hate to duplicate other's efforts
but Albert's nice work on the spreadsheet is a little too large to use for a presentation.
and I can't verify some of the numbers. and it gets confusing when SOLiD uses 'mappable' data output and Illumina doesn't mention anything.
So I have done one on my own

I have posted my version here

based on what's on the Big 3 's website and their specs.

Do drop a comment if i got anything wrong.

[strob]

another player (nanopore sequencing) (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, The Netherlands)

Graphene Nanopores Solve DNA Sequencing Problem

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25252/

The paper

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1005/1005.4754.pdf

[krobison]

This thread is about extant sequencing providers; the graphene nanopores are an interesting research effort but have yet to collect actual sequence data.

[Biotech Rockstar]

QuantuMDx (www.quantumdx.com) - Nanowire sequencing.