{"schemaVersion":1,"generatedAt":"2026-07-20T09:39:07.064Z","asOf":"2026-07-20","license":"Compiled aggregate counts (facts) re-served by SeqDesk under each source's terms; CC-BY for UniProt & AlphaFold. See https://seqdesk.org/data for full source list & licensing. Provided as-is, no warranty.","categories":{"sequence-archives":"Sequence archives","structures-proteins":"Structures & proteins","datasets-dois":"Datasets, DOIs & repositories","omics-specialized":"Omics & specialized archives","standards-vocab":"Standards & vocabularies","fair-literature":"FAIR adoption & literature","earth-environment":"Earth & environment","physics-materials":"Physics, space & materials","chemistry-compounds":"Chemistry & compounds","biodiversity":"Biodiversity & specimens","clinical-biomed":"Clinical & biomedical","open-data":"Open data & repositories","metadata-completeness":"Metadata & completeness","sequencing-technology":"Sequencing technology"},"licensing":{"summary":"Figures here are compiled aggregate counts — single totals updated weekly from public archives and cached by SeqDesk. They are facts, not reproductions of the underlying records. Each carries its source and retrieval date and is provided “as is” with no warranty. SeqDesk is independent and not endorsed by any listed organization.","providers":[{"name":"NCBI / U.S. National Library of Medicine","scope":"SRA, GenBank, RefSeq, ClinVar, dbSNP, Taxonomy, NCBI Datasets, NCBI Virus, GEO","license":"US-gov public domain · no use/distribution restrictions","url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/"},{"name":"EMBL-EBI","scope":"ENA, BioSamples, BioStudies/ArrayExpress, Europe PMC, MGnify, OLS/ENVO, ENA checklists","license":"EMBL-EBI Terms of Use · CC0-aligned","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use/"},{"name":"UniProt Consortium","scope":"UniProtKB, Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, InterPro, Pfam","license":"CC BY 4.0 (attribution required)","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"name":"RCSB PDB / wwPDB","scope":"released structures","license":"CC0 1.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"name":"AlphaFold DB (Google DeepMind / EMBL-EBI)","scope":"predicted structures","license":"CC BY 4.0 (attribution required)","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"name":"OpenAlex (OurResearch)","scope":"works, dataset works, FAIR-paper citations","license":"CC0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"name":"DataCite & Crossref","scope":"dataset DOIs, total DOIs","license":"CC0 (metadata)","url":"https://datacite.org/"},{"name":"Zenodo · OSF · Dryad · re3data","scope":"records, projects, datasets, repositories","license":"open terms · counts are facts","url":"https://zenodo.org/"},{"name":"bioRxiv/medRxiv · OBO Foundry · GSC MIxS","scope":"preprints, ontologies, MIxS terms","license":"open / CC","url":"https://www.biorxiv.org/"},{"name":"GBIF · OBIS · iNaturalist","scope":"biodiversity occurrences, datasets, observations","license":"CC0 / CC BY per record · counts are facts","url":"https://www.gbif.org/terms"},{"name":"NCBI PubChem · ClinicalTrials.gov (NLM)","scope":"compounds, substances, bioassays, registered trials & results","license":"US-gov public domain","url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/"},{"name":"CDS Strasbourg · ESA Gaia · NASA/IPAC","scope":"SIMBAD, VizieR, Gaia DR3, Exoplanet Archive, EOSDIS CMR","license":"CC BY 4.0 / Gaia licence / US-gov open","url":"https://cds.unistra.fr/"},{"name":"CERN (Open Data · INSPIRE-HEP)","scope":"physics records & open datasets","license":"CC0 / open","url":"https://opendata.cern.ch/"},{"name":"Materials Project · OQMD · NOMAD","scope":"computational materials (OPTIMADE)","license":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://materialsproject.org/about/terms"},{"name":"PANGAEA · ESGF (WCRP CMIP6)","scope":"Earth & climate datasets","license":"CC BY (per dataset)","url":"https://www.pangaea.de/"},{"name":"EMBL-EBI ChEMBL · ChEBI · GWAS Catalog · ENCODE · NeuroMorpho.Org","scope":"chemistry, ontologies, associations, experiments, neuron morphologies","license":"CC BY / open","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use/"},{"name":"Harvard Dataverse · figshare · data.europa.eu · World Bank","scope":"cross-domain datasets & development indicators","license":"open terms · counts are facts","url":"https://dataverse.harvard.edu/"},{"name":"NHGRI (National Human Genome Research Institute)","scope":"DNA sequencing cost data (cost per genome, cost per Mb)","license":"U.S. Government work / public domain (cite NHGRI)","url":"https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequencing-Costs-Data"}]},"count":12,"metrics":[{"id":"cost-per-genome","label":"Cost to sequence a human genome","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"NHGRI — DNA Sequencing Costs (Genome Sequencing Program)","unit":"USD per genome","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"release","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"manual"},"auto":false,"appendPolicy":"manual"},"release":null,"headline":{"value":"$525","unit":"per genome · 2022"},"forecast":false,"series":[["2001-09-30",95263072],["2002-03-31",70175437],["2003-03-31",53751684],["2004-01-31",28780376],["2005-01-31",17534970],["2006-01-31",12585659],["2007-01-31",9408739],["2008-01-31",3063820],["2009-01-31",232735],["2010-01-31",46774],["2011-01-31",20963],["2012-01-31",7666],["2013-01-31",5671],["2014-01-31",4008],["2015-01-31",3970],["2016-05-31",1176],["2017-02-28",1015],["2018-02-28",1232],["2019-02-28",993],["2020-02-28",645],["2021-02-28",851],["2022-05-31",525]],"note":"The most-cited chart in genomics: NHGRI's cost to generate one high-quality human whole genome (~30x), from ~$95M in Sept 2001 to ~$525 by May 2022 — a >180,000-fold drop. The famous cliff from 2008 is where second-generation sequencing made the cost fall far faster than computing's Moore's Law. NHGRI updates this dataset on its own (irregular) schedule; the curve is intentionally NOT forecast — cost has roughly plateaued since the $1,000-genome era and straight-line extrapolation would mislead.","sources":[{"label":"NHGRI — DNA Sequencing Costs: Data from the NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program (GSP)","url":"https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequencing-Costs-Data"},{"label":"NHGRI cost data table (May 2022 release, .xls)","url":"https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/media/files/2023-05/Sequencing_Cost_Data_Table_May2022.xls"}],"events":[{"date":"2005-09-01","label":"454 pyrosequencing","detail":"Margulies et al. (Nature 437:376) published the 454 picolitre-plate pyrosequencer, the first next-generation platform — roughly 100x the throughput of capillary Sanger instruments."},{"date":"2007-01-01","label":"Illumina/Solexa SBS","detail":"Solexa's sequencing-by-synthesis Genome Analyzer (Illumina acquired Solexa in 2007) brought gigabase-scale short reads, the workhorse chemistry behind most of this cost decline."},{"date":"2008-01-01","label":"Cost breaks Moore's Law","detail":"From 2008 the cost per genome fell far faster than computing's Moore's Law as second-generation sequencing scaled — the steep drop from ~$9.4M (Jan 2007) to ~$233k (Jan 2009)."},{"date":"2014-01-14","label":"$1,000 genome","detail":"Illumina launched the HiSeq X Ten on 14 Jan 2014, the first platform marketed as breaking the $1,000-per-genome barrier for population-scale whole-genome sequencing."},{"date":"2017-01-09","label":"NovaSeq 6000","detail":"Illumina introduced the NovaSeq series in January 2017, pushing per-genome cost toward a few hundred dollars at production scale."},{"date":"2022-09-29","label":"NovaSeq X / sub-$200","detail":"Illumina announced the NovaSeq X Series on 29 Sep 2022, claiming a ~$200 genome at maximum scale — beyond the end of the NHGRI series shown here."}]},{"id":"cost-per-gigabase","label":"Cost per gigabase of sequence","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"NHGRI — DNA Sequencing Costs (Genome Sequencing Program)","unit":"USD per Gb","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"release","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"manual"},"auto":false,"appendPolicy":"manual"},"release":null,"headline":{"value":"$5.80","unit":"per Gb · 2022"},"forecast":false,"series":[["2001-09-30",5292393],["2002-03-31",3898635],["2003-03-31",2986205],["2004-01-31",1598910],["2005-01-31",974165],["2006-01-31",699203],["2007-01-31",522708],["2008-01-31",102127],["2009-01-31",2586],["2010-01-31",520],["2011-01-31",233],["2012-01-31",85.2],["2013-01-31",63],["2014-01-31",44.5],["2015-01-31",44.1],["2016-05-31",13.1],["2017-02-28",11.3],["2018-02-28",13.7],["2019-02-28",11],["2020-02-28",7.2],["2021-02-28",9.5],["2022-05-31",5.8]],"note":"The raw-sequence view of the same NHGRI data: cost per gigabase (1 Gb = 1,000 Mb) of DNA sequence, from ~$5.3M/Gb in 2001 to ~$5.80/Gb in 2022 (NHGRI publishes this as cost per megabase; shown here per Gb so every point stays above the chart's log floor). This decoupled from cost-per-genome as coverage standards and read counts rose, and is the better measure of pure sequencing-output economics. Not forecast.","sources":[{"label":"NHGRI — DNA Sequencing Costs: Data from the NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program (GSP)","url":"https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequencing-Costs-Data"},{"label":"NHGRI cost data table (May 2022 release, .xls)","url":"https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/media/files/2023-05/Sequencing_Cost_Data_Table_May2022.xls"}],"events":[{"date":"2008-01-01","label":"2nd-gen sequencing","detail":"Massively parallel short-read platforms collapsed the cost of raw sequence by orders of magnitude from 2008, the steepest part of this curve."}]},{"id":"ena-platform-illumina","label":"Illumina runs in ENA","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive","unit":"runs","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"weekly","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22ILLUMINA%22&format=json","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"json","path":"count","cast":"int"},"auto":true,"appendPolicy":"on-change"},"release":null,"series":[["2014-12-31",781553],["2016-12-31",2453596],["2018-12-31",5586877],["2020-12-31",10523860],["2022-12-31",21582764],["2024-12-31",30955623],["2026-06-25",38482017],["2026-07-06",38670713],["2026-07-13",38754376],["2026-07-20",38840323]],"note":"Cumulative public sequencing runs submitted to the European Nucleotide Archive on Illumina sequencing-by-synthesis platforms — the dominant short-read chemistry. Each record is one submitted run; cumulative, so it only goes up. Counted live from the ENA Portal API by instrument_platform=ILLUMINA.","sources":[{"label":"EMBL-EBI ENA Portal API — read_run count by instrument_platform","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform=%22ILLUMINA%22&format=json"},{"label":"ENA advanced/text search","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/text-search?query=ILLUMINA"}]},{"id":"ena-platform-nanopore","label":"Oxford Nanopore runs in ENA","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive","unit":"runs","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"weekly","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22OXFORD_NANOPORE%22&format=json","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"json","path":"count","cast":"int"},"auto":true,"appendPolicy":"on-change"},"release":null,"series":[["2014-12-31",13],["2016-12-31",667],["2018-12-31",3111],["2020-12-31",47810],["2022-12-31",547288],["2024-12-31",865708],["2026-06-25",1068585],["2026-07-06",1071454],["2026-07-13",1073438],["2026-07-20",1076471]],"note":"Cumulative public ENA runs on Oxford Nanopore long-read platforms — from just 13 submitted runs by end-2014 (the year the MinION access programme began) to over a million today. The steepest adoption curve of any platform here; counted live from the ENA Portal API by instrument_platform=OXFORD_NANOPORE.","sources":[{"label":"EMBL-EBI ENA Portal API — read_run count by instrument_platform","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform=%22OXFORD_NANOPORE%22&format=json"},{"label":"ENA advanced/text search","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/text-search?query=OXFORD_NANOPORE"}]},{"id":"ena-platform-pacbio","label":"PacBio runs in ENA","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive","unit":"runs","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"weekly","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22PACBIO_SMRT%22&format=json","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"json","path":"count","cast":"int"},"auto":true,"appendPolicy":"on-change"},"release":null,"series":[["2014-12-31",19147],["2016-12-31",40488],["2018-12-31",66908],["2020-12-31",101200],["2022-12-31",666117],["2024-12-31",816427],["2026-06-25",940501],["2026-07-06",942670],["2026-07-13",944488],["2026-07-20",945447]],"note":"Cumulative public ENA runs on Pacific Biosciences SMRT long-read platforms (RS, Sequel, Revio). The jump after 2020 tracks the shift to highly accurate HiFi (CCS) reads and the high-throughput Revio. Counted live from the ENA Portal API by instrument_platform=PACBIO_SMRT.","sources":[{"label":"EMBL-EBI ENA Portal API — read_run count by instrument_platform","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform=%22PACBIO_SMRT%22&format=json"},{"label":"ENA advanced/text search","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/text-search?query=PACBIO"}]},{"id":"sequencing-platforms-on-market","label":"Sequencing platform companies on the market","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"SeqDesk — compiled from company histories","unit":"companies","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"curated","scale":"linear","fetch":{"url":"","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"manual"},"auto":false,"appendPolicy":"manual"},"release":null,"headline":{"value":"≈7","unit":"active platform makers · 2023"},"forecast":false,"series":[["1981-01-01",1],["1998-01-01",2],["2005-01-01",4],["2007-01-01",5],["2011-01-01",6],["2016-01-01",4],["2023-01-01",7]],"note":"Approximate count of distinct commercial sequencing-platform makers active over time — an illustrative boom-bust-boom arc, not an exact census. The count climbs through the NGS gold rush (Applied Biosystems Sanger era; Illumina/Solexa; 454; PacBio; Complete Genomics), falls as players are acquired or shut (454 → Roche 2007, line phased out by ~2016; Complete Genomics → BGI 2013; Solexa folded into Illumina 2007), then rises again with a second wave (MGI/BGI outside China, plus Element Biosciences, Ultima and Singular Genomics). Corrections applied during research: ABI's first commercial DNA sequencer (Model 370A) was 1987 — its first commercial instrument was the 470A Protein Sequencer (1982); Complete Genomics' commercial launch was 2010 (2009 was proof-of-concept). Counts are illustrative, so the curve is not forecast.","sources":[{"label":"Illumina, Inc. (history)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumina,_Inc."},{"label":"Complete Genomics","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Genomics"},{"label":"Applied Biosystems","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Biosystems"}],"events":[{"date":"1981-01-01","label":"Applied Biosystems","detail":"ABI founded 1981 (Foster City, CA). First commercial instrument: Model 470A Protein Sequencer (1982); first commercial DNA sequencer, the Model 370A, in 1987. Now a Thermo Fisher brand via Life Technologies."},{"date":"1998-04-01","label":"Illumina founded","detail":"Illumina incorporated 1 April 1998 in San Diego; it entered sequencing by acquiring Solexa (completed January 2007), whose sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry became the industry workhorse."},{"date":"2000-01-01","label":"454 founded","detail":"454 Life Sciences founded 2000 by Jonathan Rothberg; its GS20 (2005) was the first commercial next-generation sequencer. Acquired by Roche in 2007 and phased out by ~2016."},{"date":"2004-01-01","label":"PacBio founded","detail":"Pacific Biosciences founded 2004 (originally Nanofluidics); its first single-molecule real-time (SMRT) instrument, the PacBio RS, shipped in 2011."},{"date":"2005-01-01","label":"ONT & Complete Genomics","detail":"Oxford Nanopore (as Oxford Nanolabs) and Complete Genomics were both founded in 2005. Complete Genomics' DNB human-genome service launched commercially in 2010; it was acquired by BGI in 2013, seeding today's MGI."},{"date":"2022-01-01","label":"Second wave","detail":"A new generation of short-read challengers reached the market — Element Biosciences (AVITI), Ultima Genomics, and Singular Genomics — alongside MGI/BGI's global expansion, lifting the count again after the mid-2010s consolidation."}]},{"id":"max-instrument-output-per-run","label":"Max sequencing output per run","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"SeqDesk — compiled from vendor spec sheets","unit":"Gb/run","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"curated","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"manual"},"auto":false,"appendPolicy":"manual"},"release":null,"headline":{"value":"16 Tb","unit":"per run · NovaSeq X (2023)"},"forecast":false,"series":[["2007-01-01",1],["2010-01-01",600],["2014-01-01",1800],["2017-01-01",6000],["2023-01-01",16000]],"note":"Maximum data output of the highest-throughput instrument available each year, in gigabases per run (log scale). Illumina Genome Analyzer (2007) headlined ~1 Gb/run; HiSeq 2000 reached ~600 Gb with upgraded flow cells (2010); HiSeq X ~1.8 Tb (2014, the '$1,000 genome' machine); NovaSeq 6000 ~6 Tb (2017); NovaSeq X Plus ~16 Tb (2023) — a ~16,000-fold rise in 16 years. For scale, a capillary Sanger run produced ~0.0001 Gb, so the 2007 Genome Analyzer was already ~10,000x more than Sanger. Best-available headline maxima from vendor spec sheets (upgraded-config rather than launch values in places); not forecast, since output jumps at chemistry/flow-cell launches rather than smoothly.","sources":[{"label":"Illumina sequencing platforms & specifications","url":"https://www.illumina.com/systems/sequencing-platforms.html"},{"label":"Illumina sequencing history","url":"https://www.illumina.com/science/technology/next-generation-sequencing/illumina-sequencing-history.html"}],"events":[{"date":"2005-01-01","label":"First NGS instrument","detail":"454 GS20 (2005), the first commercial next-generation sequencer, produced ~25 Mb per run — already well beyond per-run Sanger output."},{"date":"2007-01-01","label":"1 Gb/run","detail":"Illumina/Solexa Genome Analyzer headlined ~1 gigabase per run, the sequencing-by-synthesis breakthrough."},{"date":"2014-01-14","label":"HiSeq X · $1,000 genome","detail":"HiSeq X Ten (announced 14 Jan 2014) delivered ~1.8 Tb per run and the first population-scale $1,000 genome."},{"date":"2023-01-01","label":"NovaSeq X · 16 Tb","detail":"NovaSeq X Plus (shipping from early 2023) reaches ~16 Tb per dual-flow-cell run, the current Illumina output ceiling."}]},{"id":"longest-read-length","label":"Longest sequencing read length","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"SeqDesk — compiled from literature & vendor data","unit":"bp","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"cadence":"curated","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"manual"},"auto":false,"appendPolicy":"manual"},"release":null,"headline":{"value":"882 kb","unit":"longest read · nanopore 2018"},"forecast":false,"series":[["1977-01-01",500],["1995-01-01",900],["2008-01-01",900],["2011-01-01",10000],["2014-01-01",64500],["2018-01-01",882000]],"note":"The longest read length practically achievable each year, log scale — and a counter-intuitive story. Sanger reads reached ~500 bp (1977) to ~900 bp (capillary, 1990s) and stayed the ceiling for a decade: when next-generation sequencing arrived it traded length for throughput, so the newest 2006-2010 instruments produced SHORTER reads (Illumina ~35 bp, 454 ~400 bp) than 1977 Sanger — the flat plateau here. Long reads then exploded: PacBio RS ~10 kb (2011), PacBio RS II ~64.5 kb in a published dataset (2014), and an ultra-long Oxford Nanopore read of ~882 kb (2018) — roughly 1,000x beyond Sanger. Several points are dataset maxima or practical ceilings rather than guaranteed specs. Not forecast: read length is platform-defined, not a smooth trend.","sources":[{"label":"PacBio — SMRT sequencing history","url":"https://www.pacb.com/blog/the-evolution-of-dna-sequencing-tools/"},{"label":"Oxford Nanopore — history & ultra-long reads","url":"https://nanoporetech.com/about/history"}],"events":[{"date":"1977-01-01","label":"Sanger method","detail":"Sanger chain-termination sequencing (1977); early reads a few hundred bases, rising to ~900 bp with capillary instruments."},{"date":"2006-01-01","label":"NGS reads got shorter","detail":"The Solexa/Illumina Genome Analyzer (2006) read only ~35 bp — a deliberate step DOWN from Sanger, trading length for massive parallelism. Long-read length would not recover for years."},{"date":"2011-01-01","label":"Long reads arrive","detail":"PacBio RS (2011) brought multi-kilobase single-molecule reads, reversing the downward trend and enabling genome assembly across repeats."},{"date":"2018-01-01","label":"Ultra-long nanopore","detail":"An ~882 kb Oxford Nanopore read (2018) pushed the ceiling roughly three orders of magnitude beyond Sanger, unlocking telomere-to-telomere assembly."}]},{"id":"ena-platform-mgi","label":"MGI / BGI runs in ENA","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive","unit":"runs","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"comparisonOnly":true,"cadence":"weekly","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22BGISEQ%22%20OR%20instrument_platform%3D%22DNBSEQ%22&format=json","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"json","path":"count","cast":"int"},"auto":true,"appendPolicy":"on-change"},"release":null,"forecast":false,"series":[["2016-12-31",38],["2018-12-31",5919],["2020-12-31",31852],["2022-12-31",113787],["2024-12-31",281236],["2026-06-25",646585],["2026-07-06",654399],["2026-07-13",656157],["2026-07-20",659863]],"note":"Cumulative public ENA runs on MGI / BGI DNB platforms (BGISEQ + DNBSEQ instrument_platform values combined). Shown in the platform-mix comparison card; counted live from the ENA Portal API.","sources":[{"label":"EMBL-EBI ENA Portal API — read_run count (BGISEQ OR DNBSEQ)","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform=%22BGISEQ%22%20OR%20instrument_platform=%22DNBSEQ%22&format=json"}]},{"id":"ena-platform-iontorrent","label":"Ion Torrent runs in ENA","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive","unit":"runs","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"comparisonOnly":true,"cadence":"weekly","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22ION_TORRENT%22&format=json","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"json","path":"count","cast":"int"},"auto":true,"appendPolicy":"on-change"},"release":null,"forecast":false,"series":[["2016-12-31",28653],["2018-12-31",73966],["2020-12-31",158810],["2022-12-31",375308],["2024-12-31",487513],["2026-06-25",538844],["2026-07-06",539380],["2026-07-13",539654],["2026-07-20",541909]],"note":"Cumulative public ENA runs on Thermo Fisher Ion Torrent semiconductor platforms (PGM, Proton, S5). Shown in the platform-mix comparison card; counted live from the ENA Portal API.","sources":[{"label":"EMBL-EBI ENA Portal API — read_run count by instrument_platform","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform=%22ION_TORRENT%22&format=json"}]},{"id":"ena-platform-454","label":"454 runs in ENA (retired)","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive","unit":"runs","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"comparisonOnly":true,"cadence":"weekly","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22LS454%22&format=json","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"json","path":"count","cast":"int"},"auto":true,"appendPolicy":"on-change"},"release":null,"forecast":false,"series":[["2016-12-31",282039],["2018-12-31",343950],["2020-12-31",380269],["2022-12-31",407046],["2024-12-31",416098],["2026-06-25",418573],["2026-07-06",418694],["2026-07-20",419088]],"note":"Cumulative public ENA runs on the retired Roche/454 pyrosequencing platform. The curve is now nearly flat — 454 sequencing was discontinued by ~2016, so this is a legacy archive that barely grows. Shown in the platform-mix comparison card; counted live from the ENA Portal API.","sources":[{"label":"EMBL-EBI ENA Portal API — read_run count by instrument_platform","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform=%22LS454%22&format=json"}]},{"id":"ena-platform-sanger","label":"Sanger capillary runs in ENA","category":"sequencing-technology","source":"EMBL-EBI / European Nucleotide Archive","unit":"runs","tier":"secondary","flagship":false,"comparisonOnly":true,"cadence":"weekly","scale":"log","fetch":{"url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform%3D%22CAPILLARY%22&format=json","method":"GET","parse":{"type":"json","path":"count","cast":"int"},"auto":true,"appendPolicy":"on-change"},"release":null,"forecast":false,"series":[["2016-12-31",1010],["2018-12-31",3256],["2020-12-31",335465],["2022-12-31",347570],["2024-12-31",358879],["2026-06-25",365688],["2026-07-06",365722]],"note":"Cumulative public ENA runs on first-generation Sanger capillary instruments (the chemistry the original Human Genome Project used). The step in 2019-2020 reflects a large retrospective deposition. Shown in the platform-mix comparison card; counted live from the ENA Portal API.","sources":[{"label":"EMBL-EBI ENA Portal API — read_run count by instrument_platform","url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/count?result=read_run&query=instrument_platform=%22CAPILLARY%22&format=json"}]}]}