Last week, Pacific BioSciences, which claims it will map a genome in 15 minutes for less than $1000 by 2013, announced several new partnerships which they say will help customers “rapidly and easily adopt” their sequencing technology. That’s big news, because Pacific BioSciences’s customers are ten research institutions, including major players in genetics like The Broad Institute at Harvard University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and eleven partner companies.
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