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DNA Sequencing Giant Illumina Will Buy Pacific Biosciences For $1.2 Billion – Exclusive CEO Interview

Sunday, November 4th, 2018

We’re now all ILLUMINATED: DNA Sequencing Giant $ILMN Will Buy @PacBio For $1.2B, by @MatthewHerper
https://www.Forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2018/11/01/dna-sequencing-giant-illumina-will-buy-pacific-biosciences-for-12-billion–exclusive-ceo-interview/ After raising $360M from VCs + $200M from an IPO

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“Pacific Biosciences was originally supposed to be an Illumina-killer. Founded in 2003 by chief technology officer, Steven Turner, who invented the firm’s basic technology with PacBio’s chief scientific officer, Jonas Korlach, PacBio emerged in 2009 boasting that it would disrupt the sequencing market, raising $360 million in venture capital and scoring a $200 million initial public offering. But its machines were too slow, expensive and unwieldy to slow down Illumina’s ascent. Shares plummeted, and even at the rich premium being offered by Illumina, shares are at half the IPO price.”
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illumina platinum genomes paper

Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

Set of 5.4M phased…variants…from seq. a 3-gen. 17-member [CEPH] pedigree, centered on #NA12878
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2016/11/25/gr.210500.116 $ILMN Pt genomes

A reference data set of 5.4 million phased human
variants validated by genetic inheritance from
sequencing a three-generation 17-member pedigree

Michael A. Eberle,1 Epameinondas Fritzilas,2 Peter Krusche,2 Morten Källberg,2 Benjamin L. Moore,2 Mitchell A. Bekritsky,2 Zamin Iqbal,3 Han-Yu Chuang,1 Sean J. Humphray,2 Aaron L. Halpern,1 Semyon Kruglyak,1 Elliott H. Margulies,1 Gil McVean,3,4 and David R. Bentley2

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2016/11/25/gr.210500.116