Table 1.
Number of EU/EEA countries with one or more national public health reference laboratories having access to next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for routine public health operations, by technology and instrument used, 2015–2016.
| NGS technology | Instrument | Number of countries with access to NGS |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 (n = 22) | 2016 (n = 25) | ||
| Illumina | MiniSeq | – | 2 |
| MiSeq series | 13 | 17 | |
| NextSeq | 2 | 5 | |
| HiSeq series | 6 | 8 | |
| Ion Torrent | PGM | 5 | 6 |
| Proton | 2 | 1 | |
| S5XL | – | 1 | |
| Pacific Biosciences—PacBio | PacBio RSII | 2 | 1 |
| Oxford Nanopore Technologies | MinION | – | 2 |
| Applied Biosystems Inc—SOLiD | ABI SOLiD | 1 | – |
| Not specified/reported | – | 4 | 3 |