plasmidsaurus doesn’t need to advertise because word of mouth in the science community will quickly spread the word of a new cool anything. In this cases sequencing plasmids at low cost using an up and coming next generation sequencing technique. I first heard about it in 2021 and have spent thousands of grant dollar at this company because it has a huge impact by lowering the cost of doing confirmation experiments (make you you actuallly made what you thought you made).
Plasmidsaurus was the initiator and is the leader, but other companies now provide this service. For example, Azenta (called geneWiz when it was a stand alone sequencing company) now offers the same service. Indeed, I personally would argue that Azenta does a better job providing the service. Plasmidsaurus no longer provides the entire raw sequence dataset they collect (and analyze) to provide output they provide to the customer. I don’t know why the’ve chosen to do it, but they have. Azenta does (or at least claims it does).
Not providing all the data makes it difficult and frustrating to use plasmidsaurus for performing out of the box experiments that rely on nanopore sequencing. This is because plasmidsaurus is assuming the data you are interested in is X, but that need not be the case. It actually took me a long time to figure out they weren’t return all the data. It isn’t spelled out clearly in their website info, and unless you end up with a plasmid that doesn’t behave as expected, you don’t need the rest of the data. But, if the plasmid is behaving weirdly, then the data can be really valuable. And, it was so in several instances in the past. Initially you had to request the data, then the data was available by download link, and now only data used to provide their consensus sequence is available for download. Unfortunately, while plasmidsaurus used to send you the raw data by request, recently I’ve have not been able to get plasmidsaurus to release the data in contact with their support team.
This is and will likely continue to be a successful company. But, they’ve already lost their edge on the market and they don’t seem to be fostering innovating in developing new assays for the approach as they won’t give the customers the entire data they collect.
plasmidsaurus doesn’t need to advertise because word of mouth in the science community will quickly spread the word of a new cool anything. In this cases sequencing plasmids at low cost using an up and coming next generation sequencing technique. I first heard about it in 2021 and have spent thousands of grant dollar at this company because it has a huge impact by lowering the cost of doing confirmation experiments (make you you actuallly made what you thought you made).
Plasmidsaurus was the initiator and is the leader, but other companies now provide this service. For example, Azenta (called geneWiz when it was a stand alone sequencing company) now offers the same service. Indeed, I personally would argue that Azenta does a better job providing the service. Plasmidsaurus no longer provides the entire raw sequence dataset they collect (and analyze) to provide output they provide to the customer. I don’t know why the’ve chosen to do it, but they have. Azenta does (or at least claims it does).
Not providing all the data makes it difficult and frustrating to use plasmidsaurus for performing out of the box experiments that rely on nanopore sequencing. This is because plasmidsaurus is assuming the data you are interested in is X, but that need not be the case. It actually took me a long time to figure out they weren’t return all the data. It isn’t spelled out clearly in their website info, and unless you end up with a plasmid that doesn’t behave as expected, you don’t need the rest of the data. But, if the plasmid is behaving weirdly, then the data can be really valuable. And, it was so in several instances in the past. Initially you had to request the data, then the data was available by download link, and now only data used to provide their consensus sequence is available for download. Unfortunately, while plasmidsaurus used to send you the raw data by request, recently I’ve have not been able to get plasmidsaurus to release the data in contact with their support team.
This is and will likely continue to be a successful company. But, they’ve already lost their edge on the market and they don’t seem to be fostering innovating in developing new assays for the approach as they won’t give the customers the entire data they collect.