This price advantage has made Ion Torrent the main competitor to Illumina, even as other companies such as Pacific Biosciences of California and Complete Genomics failed to make much inroads.
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Unlike DivX, whose presence is nearly ubiquitous in both the torrent world and the transcoding world, WMV transcoding is often ignored by the most popular transcoding programs.
But they still hold out the possibility of sudden wealth, if the grabber-arm can avoid the giant cuddly toys and instead unlock, in a glittering torrent, the glassed-in trove of silver.
Yet of the torrent of lurid rumours on the affair in the press, virtually none has been attributed to American officials.
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The torrent headed south, following the course of the Indus river, wrecking lives and infrastructure in the heart of Pakistan, Punjab province, and, by-mid week, in Sindh.
Rain drilling the earth, and the path a river, gathering the water into a torrent that rinsed the chalk white again.
"The easing recognises that the torrent of new regulation originating from the first phase of the financial crisis has somewhat weighed on economic recovery, in particular in Europe, " he said.
And then there's the simulated white-water rafting adventure at Miyazaki's Ocean Dome (81-985 21-1111), which injects a little bit of "real" reality by splashing actual water at riders as they drift down a violent torrent on the screen.
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As soon as new matches are consecrated, they're replaced. (How quickly Sunday's thriller vaporized Djokovic's five-set semi over Murray and Nadal's four-setter over Federer, not to mention Victoria Azarenka's 6-3, 6-0 rout of Maria Sharapova in the women's final.) The torrent of great tennis has undermined the old fear that the game would unravel with new technology, that it would become a tedious game of baseline heavy hitting.
If Charles Green is not willing to face the fans, explain the economics and risk the torrent of abuse that will follow in the short term, then Rangers will find themselves shortly back in the same place.
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Yet Obama's Wall Street Journal op-ed today, which announced the executive order, utterly glossed over the Environmental Protection Agency's C02 rules, the FCC's unauthorized net neutrality push and the torrent of rules yet to come from the health care and financial reform bills.
And yet Israel should not be surprised by the torrent of indignation it has aroused from around the world.
They want to improve its ability to handle the torrent of images, videos and emails on the Web, the sort of unstructured information that is overwhelmingly fueling the data boom.
But the key to unlocking profits from the torrent of homegrown online videos may instead be in the hands of a small British video search company called Blinkx .
However, the Torrent Freak news site reported that if subscribers used either of the two new IP addresses they would still be able to access the TPB's pages.
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The sheer complexity of modern financial markets and the torrent of information that is published each day are a boon to the providers of financial advice.
The Fed's torrent of cash pushed the fed funds rate down to 1% this week, from a high of 6% in the wake of Lehman's failure.
And we also saw journalists at their best -- especially those who took the time to wade upstream through the torrent of digital rumors to chase down leads and verify facts and painstakingly put the pieces together to inform, and to educate, and to tell stories that demanded to be told.
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In January 2000 the torrent of data pouring into America's National Security Agency (NSA) brought the system to a crashing halt.
In other words, isoHunt alters the torrent files it hosts, making them more reliable than when they were uploaded to the site.
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Parents shouldn't be obliged to act as the sole filters for the torrent of material, as they are today, blocking channels and password-protecting against the ever-shifting programming.
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Copies of Halo:Reach are fast spreading throughout the Internet, fueled by torrent download sites like The Pirate Bay.
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At the recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology in Marco Island, Florida, the focus was on the new, low-end machines like MiSeq and the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine, which was the subject of this Forbes cover story.
Given the torrent of liquidation that has occurred, how much gold can recover depends on how much residual selling remains and the capacity of would-be buyers: clearly gold is priced much more attractively than a few days ago, but buyers will be initially fearful of stepping up amid such nervousness.
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That means that including the new machine and a computer server, the Ion Torrent PGM is about half as expensive as the MiSeq.
Now new entrants, like the Ion Torrent sequencing technology owned by Life Technology and the new types of sequencers being developed by Oxford Nanopore are fomenting more competition and driving costs down even further.
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The promise of the Ion Torrent PGM is that it is based entirely on the kind of silicon chips the microprocessor industry has used for decades.
We're not professional musicians by a long shot, but when we do get a chance to break away from the relentless torrent of cellphones and tablets, nothing quite hits the spot like a little music appreciation.
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The first rain of the year, which fell last week, turned the Kukcha river, a snow-fed torrent that rushes through the town, from its normal milky jade to a muddy brown.
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Even that might have slipped by amid the torrent of obnoxiousness that is online commenting.
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