Illumina Announces Plan to Release 1 Million BeadChips

Illumina announced that it plans to release, by June 2006, a whole-genome microarray offering that will utilize the company's new Infinium assay and enable researchers to genotype one million Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) on a pair of Sentrix BeadChips. Single BeadChip offerings containing 250,000 and 500,000 fixed-content SNP markers will be developed and released on the path to the million-SNP product.

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