Not to be outdone by Roche, Illumina has announced a new version of it's Genome Analyzer: the IIe. The IIe's specs are generally pretty reasonable (18-20 GB in about 10 days @ 2x100). Cost will be approximately $250,000.

Ilumina also annouced a big brother to the IIx, the HiSeq2000, which kicks things up a notch to 150-200 Gb (of 2x100) in about 8 days.

Wow.