Ion Personal Genome Machine

The Ion Personal Genome Machine while still only designed for research use at this time and “not intended for animal or human therapeutic or diagnostic use” will be able to sequence DNA and has an IPod docking station. The Ion Personal Genome Machine can be used to explore a genome and check on the status of given sequencing run with either an IPhone or IPod Touch. While still impractical it is a huge leap in DNA Technology. Currently the fastest and newest DNA sequencer is the HiSeq 2000. That it still takes a day to run a DNA sequence, as well as being the about the size of a dishwasher.