Current status of nanopore and iontorrent

[fahim]

Hi
I was wondering whether genome sequencers from nanopore are out in the market. Is Gridion system mentioned on their site is a genome sequencer?
Can someone mention about its other technical specification such as throughput, cost, runtime, etc etc. as mentioned in 5500xl, GS systems etc.

What about Ion torrent?
Thanks
Fahim

[krobison]

No chemistry that works yet for nanopores.

Ion Torrents are starting to show up in the field.

Some recent info on Ion Torrent can be found at Fejes.ca.

[darth]

nanopore

my understanding was that the GridION system has a cartridge functionalised for each chemistry type. I don't know why you say no chemistry yet as the vibe i got was that they have made a lot of progress but are just being secretive.

[krobison]

Okay, more precision: they have no announced functional chemistry, no publicly demonstrated ability to read bases and no released commercialization schedule. They could indeed have a secret chemistry, but if so why not start moving into the market?

They do have a cool looking box (which could be a mock-up) and a proposal that each chemistry would have a unique cartridge.

Even if they do have a chemistry, it would seem conservative to estimate 1 to 1.5 years minimum to actually getting machines available for sale, given some beta testing time and the usual headaches of starting up (PacBio is tending more towards the 1.5 mark; Ion Torrent closer to 1)

[monad]

Even if they do have a chemistry, it would seem conservative to estimate 1 to 1.5 years minimum to actually getting machines available for sale, given some beta testing time and the usual headaches of starting up (PacBio is tending more towards the 1.5 mark; Ion Torrent closer to 1)

I'd like to be wrong, but this may not be in a prime time within 2-3 years.