Equipment at Clinical Genomics Uppsala
Illumina NextSeq 550
- High-Output Kit
- 4 lane flow cell
- Yield: up to 120 GB
- Reads per run: up to 800 M
- Read lengths: up to 2 x 150 bases
- Applications: Exomes, broad gene panels
- Mid-Output Kit
- 4 lane flow cell
- Yield: up to 40 GB
- Reads per run: up to 260 M
- Read lengths: up to 2 x 150 bases
- Applications: Gene panels
Illumina MiSeq
- 1 lane flow cell
- Yield: up to 10 GB
- Reads per run: up to 18 M
- Read lengths: up to 2 x 300 bases
- Applications: Small gene panels, bacterial/viral genomes
Illumina MiniSeq
- 1 lane flow cell
- Yield: up to 7 GB
- Reads per run: up to 50 M
- Read lengths: up to 2 x 150 bases
- Applications: Small gene panels, few samples, bacterial/viral genomes
For more information on the different platforms, visit Illumina's website.

Nanopore GridION
- Yield: up to 10 GB per flowcell; 5 flowcells can be combined to one run.
- Multiplexing up till 96 samples.
- Read length: Dependent on amplicon size or extraction quality for WGS upp till 10 kb.
- Applications: small gene panels, bacterial/ viral genomes, fast sequencing, metagenomics
For more information, visit Oxford Nanopore Technologies' website.
NanoString nCounter® FLEX
- Gene expression panels of up to 770 genes
- 12 samples analyzed per run
- Applications: Gene expression analyses
For more information, visit Nanostring's website.

Bio-Rad QX200™ Droplet Digital™ PCR system
- Droplet digital PCR analysis in 96-well plates
- Applications: Sensitive detection of specific mutations
Read more about Droplet Digital PCR on Bio-Rad's website.
Mission Bio Tapestri® platform
- Pre-designed or custom DNA and antibody panels
- Applications: Simultaneous detection of SNVs, CNVs and cell surface proteins in single cells
For more information, visit Mission Bio’s website.

Other equipment
Through collaboration with the SNP&SEQ Technology Platform and Uppsala Genome Center we have access to additional instruments, including e.g. NovaSeq 6000 (Illumina) and PacBio instruments.
Last modified: 2022-05-13