Affymetrix GeneChip Hybridisation Oven 640

Plastic 384 well plate for individual genotyping, one sample variant per well

ThermoFisher QuantStudio Array with 2,056 wells for individual genotyping with one sample or variant per well, 2015

Illumina microarray, generally used for a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), roughly 1 million) per array and used in genome wide association studies

Ion PGM 314 sequencing chip with 1.2 million wells which works by detecting H+ atoms released (pH change) when a nucleotide base in incorporated; the chip converts the pH change into an electronic signal, by Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA, 2015

Ion Proton PI sequencing chip, with 165 million wells, detects H+ atoms released (pH change) when a nucleotide base is incorporated, the chip converts the pH change into an electronic signal, only takes 4 hours to sequence which is very fast, used for human exome sequencing, by Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA, 2015

Illumina HiSeqX flow cell, used for sequencing 8x human genomes (to 30x coverage), the $1000 genome project and used to sequence the Lothian Birth Cohort, 2015