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Their overall gross margin is >60%. I suspect that instrument margins are actually also quite high, but they factor in R&D spending on instrument costs.
However, Dante labs appear to be using BGI, not Illumina for sequencing.
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http://41j.com/blog/2018/11/illumina-consumables-are-90-prof...
Their overall gross margin is >60%. I suspect that instrument margins are actually also quite high, but they factor in R&D spending on instrument costs.
However, Dante labs appear to be using BGI, not Illumina for sequencing.