It was recently announced that a version of Iron Man 3 will be aimed specifically at the Chinese market, including sequences shot in Beijing and significant product placements.
- The market for sequencing genes in agriculture, resulting in better mate selection in the livestock industry and for optimal seed selection to get maximum yields is, perhaps, a $5 billion market.
First, the market for sequencing is dominated by Illumina of San Diego, whose big machines have helped make most of the major discoveries so far and competing won't be easy.
With new agents entering the market, the sequencing of first-line (Tx1), second-line (Tx2), and subsequent chemotherapy/biologics regimens are being examined.
Companies such as Roche (454 Genome Sequencer FLX), Applied Biosystems (Solid System) and Illumina (Genome Analyzer) have brought high throughput DNA sequencers to the market that can sequence several hundred million to a few billions of basepairs in a few days.
The three H7N9 viruses (from the index patient, second patient, and environmental sample from the live poultry market) shared similar sequence characteristics with each other and with available human strains.
Currently, Illumina sequencing seems to dominate the sequencing market thanks to its lower cost and the shorter time required to process a large number of samples [ 51].
"If the personal genome sequencing market follows suit, we might say that 2007 for personal genome sequences was like 1979 for PCs, and we've just turned the corner into 1980 where units sold remains below 1m, but growth is noticeable".
Cheaper short read techniques therefore seem poised to dominate the sequencing market for the foreseeable future, especially given that human genome re-sequencing, the main economic driver for innovation in genome sequencing technologies, is focused on clinical personal genomics where short reads appear largely sufficient for reference assembly and SNP detection.
But it also meant doubling the market for his sequencing machines and their chemical reagents.
