November 05, 2009
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Illumina said today that the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has purchased 30 of the company's Genome Analyzers, increasing the institute's total installed base of Illumina systems to 89.

Robert Nicol, director of sequencing operations at Broad, said in a statement that the institute purchased the additional instruments to ramp up its sequencing capabilities in whole genome, whole exome, and whole transcriptome analysis.

"We are happy with the technology’s accuracy, ease of use, and scalability, as well as continued system improvements that have recently enabled us to generate multiple runs with more than 50 gigabases of high-quality sequence data," Nicol said.

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Isilon Scale-Out NAS Selected as Storage Infrastructure for IlluminaCompute Genomic Sequencing Solution

SEATTLE, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN - News), the proven leader in scale-out NAS, today announced that Illumina, Inc. has selected Isilon as the storage infrastructure for IlluminaCompute, its new, fully integrated, high-performance computing solution for its Genome Analyzer sequencing platform.

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SEATTLE, WA - September 15, 2008 - Isilon® Systems (NASDAQ: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage, today announced that the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, one of the world's leading genomics and biomedical research institutes, has deployed Isilon IQ clustered storage to streamline mission-critical data access and utilization in its next-generation DNA sequencing workflow. With Isilon IQ, the Broad Institute has accelerated its high-performance workflow while also supporting a five-fold increase in the volume of genomic data that can be analyzed and stored, enabling researchers to devote precious time and resources into groundbreaking biomedical research.

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