If you're at all interested in the latest developments in sequencing technology, then you should be following Lex Nederbragt's In beteween lines of code blog. In particular you should always take time to read his annual snapshop overview of how the major players are all faring.

This is the fourth edition of this visualisation…As before, full run throughput in gigabases (billion bases) is plotted against single-end read length for the different sequencing platforms, both on a log scale.

The 2015 update looks interesting because of the addition of a certain new player!