Nanopore and Big Data

Thesis: We should get into the nanopore market.

who are the players ( Nanopore manufactures )

• Oxford Nanopore Technologies https://nanoporetech.com/
• Illumina , was in an agreement with nanopore and that's been broken off. they are going to do their own thing ( http://www.illumina.com/ )
• http://www.454.com/

SWOT

Stregnth

• Big data mating
• Margins?
• Sales cycle?
• Training?
• Maintanace / Manged place
• Cloud offering

Weakness

• long lead times , long sales cycles.
• specialized knowledge

Oportunity

• canada does lots of genetic research.

Threat

• quagmired.
• long lead times
• poor margin
• incumbent owns vertical

Home work:

• who ar the clients?
• how long are lead times?
• what do margins look like?
• is there a managed play?
• studio cloud like dedicated DC?

references

blogs:

Thoughts on Oxford Nanopore’s MinION mobile DNA sequencer

Nanopore wars

news release:

http://newmediacanada.ca/article.php?id_article=10789

http://isis-innovation.com/success-stories/gene-sequencing-oxford-nanopore-technologies/

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/17/dna-machine-human-sequencing ( 2012 )

research clues:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-243635742.html