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| Type | Incorporated |
|---|---|
| Industry | Laboratory informatics |
| Headquarters | 5200 Illumina Way, San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Number of locations | 18 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products |
Products list
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| Revenue | $3.24 billion (2020)[1] |
| Employees | 7,800+[1] |
| Website | Illumina.com |
| https://www.linkedin.com/company/7513 |
Illumina, Inc. develops and distributes laboratory informatics software applicable to the analysis of genetic variation and function.
Illumina was founded in April 1998 and completed its IPO in July 2000, raising a little over $100 million. One of its first partnerships was with Applied Biosystems, Inc. in November 1999 "to combine Applied Biosystem's proven assay technology with Illumina's BeadArray platform to create a high-throughput SNP genotyping system."[2]
In November 2008, Illumina began a collaboration with GenoLogics Life Sciences Software Inc. to use their Geneus software for Illumina's hardware sequencing platform, then called Genome Analyzer.[3] The following year Illumina began advertising its Illumina LIMS on its website "for Infinium Whole-Genome Genotyping, Infinium iSelect, GoldenGate Genotyping, and GoldenGate Indexing products."[4]
GenoLogics reaffirmed its collaboration with Illumina in May 2011, stating that it's new GenoLogics LIMS would be incorporated in Illumina's next series of hardware sequencing platforms.[5]
In September 2014, Illumina again renewed its collaboration with GenoLogics, this time agreeing to use GenoLogics' Clarity LIMS in Illumina's new HiSeq X Ten hardware sequencing platforms. GenoLogics also announced "Illumina will be using GenoLogics’ LIMS to support its collaboration with Genomics England to sequence 100,000 genomes."[6]
In an August 2015 press release, Illumina announced it had agreed to acquire GenoLogics, which would become part of the Illumina Enterprise Informatics business.[7]
GenoLogics was formally discontinued as a legal entity in Canada on September 9, 2015.[8] Though it operated as "GenoLogics, an Illumina company" for a long while[9], the GenoLogics website finally went dark in early 2020[10], perhaps signaling the end of the GenoLogics name.
Sometime in the summer or fall of 2023, the company dropped the "BaseSpace" from "BaseSpace Clarity LIMS." Additionally, Illumina LIMS now appears to be called "Illumina Microarray LIMS" as of 2022.
Clarity LIMS is laboratory information management system "designed for genomics labs to track samples and manage workflows for an optimized and efficient lab."[11] The LIMS has a long history through its predecessor, GenoLogics.[12] The software is deployed in the cloud and comes in Professional and Enterprise editions.[13]
Illumina Microarray LIMS is a LIMS "that guides time-consuming and error-prone sample/data handling and tracking from end to end, ensuring reliable, high-quality data outputs, and enabling multiple projects to be managed in parallel."[14]
Pricing information not made public.
The Illumina YouTube channel can be found here. Demo videos of their LIMS include:
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