MiSeq Personal Sequencer by Illumina

"This sequencer works really well. We have had a few hiccups but when there has been issues Illumina is amazing at helping either on the phone or sending personnel out to take a look at it. They have great webinars to help understand what is going on with the instrument."

"It was easy to use but we usually had problems with output quality sequences."

"Illumina made it easier to prepare libraries, to have a clear vision of the assay quality and in the end focus on the sequences meaning."

"The next generation platform, Illumina MiSeq is quite useful platform and is being used very effectively in my lab in human molecular research to find the etiology of disease, exome sequencing and discovery of novel SNPs to find the etiology of various inherited disorders and also being applied in diagnostic and human DNA forensics."

"It used to be very demanding to sequence Library, low the miseq system enables a piece of cake protocol. You focus on the results, not on the benchtop work"

"We tried the Oxford Nanopore and the one from Thermo Fisher, we came to a conclusion that the Illumina system gives more accurate read than the other two for amplicons samples. The support service is really good in terms of speed of response to requests."

"Very easy to use. I get fantastic support from illumina team."

"The MiSeq is typically used to conduct test runs on certain assays before we move them unto bigger platforms like the HiSeq and 3000/4000 Instruments. Technical support has always been helpful in providing guidance whenever we run into any sample sheet issues among many others. I recently started using it to sequence my WGS cfDNA samples at low coverage and based on tumor content moving on the construction of Exome libraries. It is definitely an instrument that we cannot do without especially due to the cost."

"Miseq is a good sequencer for microbiologist. Many of application for identifying microorganisms and easy to use machine. But longer read like 300bp has a quality issue on the read2. Other than this, everything is working as expected. Materials cost is a bit higher."

"The MiSeq is great for short read technology. We use our short reads to "polish" our long-read PacBio assemblies due to its high coverage and we love it."

"MiSeq allows small genome sequencing and assembly, and enables detection of target variants with unmatched accuracy, especially within homopolymer regions. Now, even more samples can be processed in less time while generating more reads per run than any previous versions. All of this can be achieved using the targeted gene and small genome sequencer with the shortest sample-to-data workflow. The MiSeq instrument fills a niche for smaller genome projects with a lower cost per run, faster throughput, and a variety of applications"

"Achieved excellent quality and reproducible results. Very happy with it."

"It was easy to use and they were so helpful in data analysis"

"I love Illumina and the customer service they give if there is any issue with the sequencer or with the RTA software "

"It is so easy to use and great results! one can run the sample and get results in a fast and efficient manner"

"It is really good for speeding up the NGS process and has good downstream analysis options."

"My personal best benchtop sequencer in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Best suitable for Bacterial Genomics as multiplexing is easier and cost effective."