Next Generation Sequencing

Next-generation sequencing (NGS), also known as high-throughput sequencing, is the catch-all term used to describe several different modern sequencing technologies including:

• Illumina (Solexa) sequencing
• Roche 454 sequencing
• Ion torrent: Proton / PGM sequencing
• SOLiD sequencing

These recent technologies allow us to sequence DNA and RNA much more quickly and cheaply than the previously used Sanger sequencing, and as such have revolutionized the study of genomics and molecular biology