$1,000 for the starter pack - what kind of use can you get out of that, and how much are the ongoing costs for the flowcells and anything else that needs to be replenished?
Are you using it for fun? professionally? academically?
Are you using it for fun? professionally? academically?
Reagent kits run a few hundred dollars depending on what your doing and you get several uses out of them.
IIRC it's not certified for use as a medical diagnostics device so it's "research only".
It's a nice system with great (none) upfront costs that has a lot of potential. But read quality and quanity per dollar aren't as good as what we get with our NextSeq (which by contrast costs something crazy like 300-400k)
The problem here is that everything in that pipeline keeps improving at a fast base. Also the reference databases are updated all the time. Whereas sequencing will probably always give the right answer to the precise question it was given, I don't see any luck in certifying these methods any time soon.