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Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Market by Platforms (Illumina HiSeq, MiSeq, HiSeqX Ten, NextSeq 500,Thermo Fisher Ion Proton/PGM), Bioinformatics (Exome Sequencing, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq), Technology (SBS, SMRT) & by Application (Diagnostics, Personalized Medicine) – Global Forecast to 2020
The next generation sequencing market is rapidly evolving with a large number of developments taking place to increase accuracy and speed, and reduce costs of sequencing. It is the fastest-growing and most lucrative segment in the genomics space with an estimated growth of 23.1%. The global NGS market will be worth $2.5 billion in 2014 and is poised to reach $8.7 billion by 2020. By supporting genomics research, various government bodies like NHGRI (National Human Genome Research Institute, U.S.) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, U.K.) are increasing the adoption of high-throughput sequencing platforms.
The growth of the overall next generation sequencing market is driven by continuous innovations and developments in the market aimed at higher throughput, increased accuracy, and affordable costs. However, factors such as high reliability on grants and funding from the government, and decrease in capital expenditure from academic institutions are hindering the growth of the market. In addition, the interpretation of big data generated by sequencers and the subsequent storage and management of the analyzed data is still a challenge. Owing to the complexity of NGS technologies and data, standardization of the overall NGS workflow presents an unmet need. The opportunities for the growth of this market include developments in the pre-sequencing, cloud computing, and NGS bioinformatics solutions.
The NGS platforms market will be dominated by Illumina in 2014, which will occupy the largest market share of 74%. Other companies with commercial platforms include Life Technologies (Thermo Fisher Scientific) (U.S.), 454 Roche (U.S.), and Pacific Biosciences (U.S.). The recently introduced platforms such as HiSeq X Ten and NextSeq 500 will drive the market. Based on steps in the NGS workflow, the overall next generation sequencing market has three major segments, namely, pre-sequencing, NGS platforms and services, and NGS data analysis, storage and management.
The raw sequencing data generated by today’s sequencers does not reflect on any meaningful information in itself. Also, open source tools for analyzing NGS data require adequate bioinformatics training. These factors open up huge opportunities for commercial NGS bioinformatics software, workbenches, and services, whose market is currently fragmented and has a relatively smaller size. Whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing, targeted re-sequencing, de novo sequencing, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq and methyl-Seq are the major applications that use NGS data analysis tools and services. Key players such as CLC bio (A member of QIAGEN) (The Netherlands), Biomatters (New Zealand), Partek (U.S.), Genomatix (Germany), Knome (U.S.), and DNASTAR (U.S.) dominate this market space.
Next generation sequencing is set to revolutionize applied markets such as diagnostics, drug discovery, biomarker discovery, personalized medicine, and agriculture and animals research. Research institutes and government bodies contribute the highest to the end-user market of NGS; however, the adoption rate in hospitals will increase in the near future owing to cost effectiveness, increasing applications in diagnostics, high throughput, and sensitivity.
The next generation sequencing market will witness a whole new generation of sequencing platforms based on nanopore sequencing technology and fully integrated instruments in a few years that could perform all the NGS workflow steps.
Scope of the Report
This research report categorizes and analyzes the global next generation sequencing market on the basis of steps in the NGS workflow and applications. These markets are further divided into segments and sub-segments, to provide exhaustive value analysis for the years 2012, 2013, and 2014 forecast to 2020. Each market is comprehensively analyzed at a granular level by geography (North America, Europe, Asia, and Rest of the World) to provide in-depth information on the global scenario.
