- Headquarters
- San Diego, United States · North America
- Value chain
- Equipment & machinery(Tools); also Chemicals & gases
- What that means
- Builds the machines that make things: production, test and measurement equipment, machine tools, printers and lab instruments.
- Founded
- 1998
- Staff
- 8,970 (2024)
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- Nasdaq:ILMN on Google Finance
- Website
- illumina.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Genomics & Biological Data
San Diego, United StatesIn 2 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Genomics & Biological DataVery high
Biotechnology & Health Technologies · Manufacture · listed #1 of 50
Dominant supplier of short-read sequencing-by-synthesis instruments (NovaSeq X, NextSeq, MiSeq) and the top international patent applicant in this capability.
Relevance: Dominant short-read sequencing platform; sets global NGS standard
Biotechnology & Health Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #11 of 50
Dominant DNA sequencing platform supplier, providing the read-out step of the design-build-test cycle in engineering biology.
Relevance: Sequencing read-out; enabling but not engineering-focused