Buying Instruments or Outsourcing the Service. What do you Prefer?
November 18, 2011 
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The poll did run since September 14th. 36 ngs-expert.com readers did submit their votes.
- 22,5% prefer buying an instrument for their NGS applications.
- 25% think that outsourcing depends strongly on the project itself.
- 50% share our opinion that outsourcing is the preferred method. As already posted in September it seems that many instruments are used far below their actual capacity. Since expertise in next generation sequencing, sample preparation and handling improves by regular working with the instruments, the real advantage of having the sequencer in the lab is limited. Based on this it might be more efficient to invest the research funds in a more effective way.
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Very interesting result! I did not expect such a clear voting for outsourcing.
Yeah of course that slhoud have read $40-50k. The price (for a sequencing facility) is down to around $10k for a high quality genome sequence now, and will probably fall to closer to $5k by the end of the year. I never wrote a Basics 3rd Gen post, though I did write a more technical low-down on 3rd gen technology a while ago:I’d love to write more sequencing basics posts, but I’m currently working on a different project, so they may be a while in coming.