Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced it has received more than 30 orders for multiple Ion GeneStudio S5 Systems a week after launching the new line of benchtop next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. The sequencers have been purchased by early access laboratories for application areas ranging from cancer research to metagenomics. The Ion GeneStudio S5 Series of instruments have been designed with end-to-end automation, including library prep, which results in lower laboratory operational costs and minimizes human errors. The systems provide the most flexibility of any NGS benchtop system on the market. Users can easily scale their experiments by switching between the interchangeable Ion S5 chips – not another sequencer – to match the appropriate throughput requirements for their application of interest. When combined with Thermo Fisher's breadth of assays, the best-in-class Ion AmpliSeq technology and the newly announced Ion AmpliSeq HD technology, automated sample prep platform and downstream bioinformatics and reporting tools, the entire offering delivers the industry's most-comprehensive, end-to-end solution for targeted NGS.