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  My contribution to the increasing entropy, and eventual heat death of the universe

• 41J Blog » Blog Archive » The Next Few Years in DNA Sequencing

  Some was asking on Twitter about the effect of Illumina’s IP expiring on the sequencing industry. I figured I’d summarize my thoughts here. I’m not a patent lawyer, so you should consider tha…

• 41J Blog » Blog Archive » Global Sequencing Capability Notes

  I’ve been trying to come up with a rough estimate for the total worldwide sequencing capability. To estimate this, I tried to estimate the number of instruments deployed for popular sequencing plat…

• 41J Blog » Blog Archive » Olink

  This post previously appeared on substack. Olink is developing a novel sequencing based proteomics platform. Their 2020 revenue was $54.1 million, 16.7% growth on 2019. This year growth looks …

• 41J Blog » Blog Archive » LX-4000 stage controller notes

  The LX-4000 is the stage controller used in the Illumina Genome Analyzer 2. It’s a custom stage controller made by ASI somewhat similar to their ASITiger controllers. The controller is essent…

• 41J Blog » Blog Archive » Thoughts on a new approach to viral testing

  One of the issues with testing for COVID19 and similar viral outbreaks is that kits can not be deployed ahead of time. Early in the outbreak the sequence of virus will not be known. Once determined…