I know absolutely nothing about their technology (they’ve been playing things much closer to their chests than Pacific Biosystems), but they just announced they’d start delivering their machines by the end of this year and that they’ll reveal the principles of their new technology in a talk on Saturday.
Marco Island, Florida (where the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference is being held) is certainly the place to be this week.
Greg Baute’s optimistic predictions about the year 2010 in sequencing may prove more accurate than my own pessimism yet.