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.

Photo of sequencing chip.
Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt

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.

Photo of Nanostring instrument.
Photo: Nanostring Technologies

​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.

Photo: Mission Bio
Last modified: 2022-05-13