Interestingly their other products use nvidia gpus - up to 4 A series! Could be small but they use a GV100 in a smaller machine soo… maybe A100s! Did they make an ASIC for this small sequencer? FPGA? Offload to openCL/Cuda on the host computer? Very interesting
They also sell their larger machine capital cost free apparently? And only charge for consumables.
> Theoretical max output when system is run for 72 hours at 400 bases / second. Outputs may vary according to library type, run conditions, etc.
Why would library type matter if it only did work on the device?
I also found it interesting that DNA length is apparently measured in megabytes.
The library type here probably refers to gDNA, mRNA, total RNA, etc. Due to biological and chemical reasons, these affect how the sequencing work and the amount of material available for the sequencer to read.
That said, this is pretty much a toy. You pay $1000 for the sequencer. You also need a $2000 PC to analyze the data. You also pay like $800 per run. So the running cost is so high it isn't worth it.