![]() * ’s Amazon Web Services offers data storage products through so-called cloud computing, in which data is stored remotely on servers in data centers. * Agilent Technologies Inc, a leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, offers the SureSelect Target Enrichment System, which helps geneticists analyze larger numbers of samples. Here are some companies that hope to take up that slack. George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and its chief executive is Jonathan Rothberg, founder of Roche’s 454 Life Sciences until 2007.Īs sequencing equipment becomes faster and cheaper, the machines will create huge demand for computing power, data analysis and other support services to help researchers make sense of all the data. ![]() ![]() The company has some big minds behind it. It expects to launch the product later this year. * Ion Torrent Systems Inc of Guilford, Connecticut, and San Francisco, California, is working on a desktop-sized sequencer that directly translates chemically encoded information - the A, C, G, T code of DNA into digital information - the 0, 1 language of computers - on a semiconductor chip. Founded in 2006, Complete Genomics plans an aggressive expansion this year and will open satellite genome sequencing service centers around the world. ![]() * Privately held Complete Genomics Inc based in Mountain View, California, says it can do a better quality, usable genome map for about $4,400. The company won an Advanced Sequencing Technology Award from the National Human Genome Research Institute to develop a machine that can sequence the human genome for $1,000, which analysts say could occur in the next five years. * Pacific Biosystems, a private, Menlo Park, California, biotech, is angling to be the new gold standard with the expected launch of its $750,000 Single Molecule Real Time or SMRT DNA sequencer in the second half of 2010. ![]()
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