His general feeling is that the capillary machine is an expensive investment with a poor return at this point, since the facility has lots of unused sequencing capacity. When the existing instruments need replacing, the capillary-based system will be the way to go. In the meantime, he leans toward the use of current sequencing resources. Some discussion followed about the Genomics facilities that are being set up. Particularly since CGM it is not being used to full capacity.
Genomics is exciting right now but shouldn t be developed in a vacuum.
The general feeling of the SAC was that the quantitative PCR should be pursued.