NGS Manufacturers Market - Director of Spatial Biology, Private U.S. Children's Research Hospital

A director of spatial biology at a U.S. Children’s Research Hospital runs the genomics core and is also the PI of a lab. They are familiar with Illumina, ThermoFisher, MGI / Complete Genomics, Oxford Nanopore, PacBio, Element, Singular, and Ultima. They currently utilize various instruments from Illumina and the Sequel system from PacBio. They are impressed with new vendors but believe it will be very difficult to replace Illumina in genomics cores given years of investment. They prioritize cost and brand when purchasing new instruments and are looking to expand the assays they can run. They are interested in expanding single cell and long read capabilities and believe non-Illumina vendors can help fill this role. They currently utilize DRAGEN for bioinformatics and believe certain bioinformatics areas are still ‘clunky’, especially for spatial analysis, with bioinformatics being a key gating factor to publications and grants.

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