Kalorama: Shrinking Sequencers Create Growing Market
NEW YORK, June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Kalorama Information, the dominant trends in the growing next generation sequencing (NGS) market include significant efforts in automation as well as rapid adoption of smaller sequencers. More accessible and affordable sequencers, say the healthcare market research firm, has led to growing demand for consumables including sample prep materials. The healthcare market research company's report, The Market for Sample Preparation for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), highlights major trends taking place in the market for library preparation and target enrichment for NGS, which includes the hardware and consumables.
The market for sample preparation for next generation sequencing reached $415 million in 2015, according to the report and size of instrumentation and new competitors are among the areas of rapid change. The Market for Sample Preparation for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) can be found at Kalorama Information: http://www.kaloramainformation.com/Sample-Preparation-Generation-10027181/.
"The usual benefits of automation are reproducibility and reduced contamination, while the ability to miniaturize most often results in reduced costs," said Bruce Carlson, Publisher of Kalorama Information. "Also, the introduction of smaller, cheaper benchtop NGS systems has expanded the market into smaller labs that could not afford the earlier, more expensive systems."
The promise of DNA sequencing via NGS alone has already attracted many companies, researchers, and investors. Recent significant efforts in automation and miniaturization have produced a further uptick in the introductions of automated systems across the range of sample preparation areas. Examples include the following systems and products: 10X Genomics' Chromium system, Becton Dickinson's CLiC system, Fluidigm's Library Prep IFCs and C1 mRNA Seq HT IFC, and Illumina's NeoPrep Library Prep System and SeqLab.
Sequencers have been introduced that require less ancillary equipment or are tightly integrated with their automated sample preparation instruments. Kits are also increasingly providing improvements that reduce the number of steps. Most companies have stated their intentions to continue the development of more streamlined end-to-end workflows. In addition to the benefits already noted, developments such as these bring the added benefits of reducing labor and time. For some large experiments, automation or miniaturization is the only way to scale projects. In other areas such as single cell analysis, it can allow small labs to avoid the need for expensive, specialized systems.
Smaller systems, due to their lower throughput, are suitable for a variety of applications but not for most whole genome sequencing. These systems are largely being used for amplicon sequencing and targeted sequencing, as well as RNA or small/micro RNA sequencing. The science is also evolving to the point where labs are often designing their experiments to generate only the data that they expect to need.
The rapid rate of adoption of these benchtop systems has fueled the growth for reagents and kits for these various applications. In particular, there has been a great demand for panels of genes related to specific disease areas. With the high performance provided by these smaller systems, the sales do not appear to be slowing down and the trend is expected to continue as the price of benchtop instruments falls further.
The Market for Sample Preparation for Next Generation Sequencing focuses on the market for NGS sample preparation products. The report discusses trends, challenges, strategies, companies, and products, and provides estimates of market share and revenue growth for the market, including NGS sample preparation revenues and growth rate, 2015-2020; revenues by region, 2015 (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, rest-of-world); revenues by product type, 2015 (enrichment, library prep kits, panels, etc.; automation/ hardware; nucleic acid extraction); and NGS sample preparation leading company revenues and market shares, 2015. The competitive situation, deals, and litigation are also covered in respective chapters.
The Market for Sample Preparation for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) can be found at Kalorama Information: http://www.kaloramainformation.com/Sample-Preparation-Generation-10027181/.
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