The work is never done for Pacific Biosciences ... of reads per flow cell. Currently Onso, with its $259,000 price tag, is designed to offer 400 million to 500 million DNA sequencing reads ...

Illumina, the dominant maker of DNA sequencing machines, has agreed to purchase smaller rival Pacific Biosciences for $8 a share, or $1.2 billion, in an effort to cement its ownership of cutting ...