Stock tip: ILMN
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With no clear competitors (454 is the “old” standard in sequencing and is quickly being replaced, and ABI just sucks), and a $500,000 Genome Analyzer platform that’s selling dozens to huge labs across the country, Illumina is posed to explode. Having bought Solexa last yaer, their stock has doubled in the past year, and it’s going to keep going up for the next few years. Unlike most technology, the GA isn’t going to be replaced by the next great thing — from Illumina or someone else — since the GA is incredibly upgradeable and scalable. This probably won’t take us all the way to the $10K genome, but it’s going to be used so much in research worldwide that it’s worth buying and holding!!
Buy now
PS I have no competing interest here, and I’m sharing just because I don’t have a stock portfolio :(
blogging from nyc
Tags:graduate schoolsi’m in nyc stealing internet in my hotel room. about to go to be wined and dined at some snazzy restaurant as part of the recruitment weekend. i had my interviews at columbia university yesterday for the phd program in biomedical informatics. they went really well, and i met a lot of interesting people in the center for computational biology and bioinformatics whom i would love to work with. i met two cool guys (or arrogant slackers, depends on your take) who made the program seem really cool and chill. their philosophy is “if you have to work hard, you aren’t smart enough to be in the program.” the graduate student housing here is really nice and affordable, too. went to the moma today … huge but great :)
i have a ton more interviews this month, so i’m going to be all around the us. free trips to cool cities though :) boston, seattle, berkeley, durham (blech) here i come.