Specifications include, but are not limited to: Element Biosciences has entered the market as a disruptive force in a section that was formerly ruled by only one company. Elements instrument is based off of a different and better chemistry than competition. Element is the only vendor that has created chemistry that is not only unique, but better than what other competitors have been able to produce. For example, other leading instrument has specifications that >85% of called bases will be Q30 quality or better. Realistically, runs are often close to this but sometimes are slightly below. Element has a minimum specification of >90% of bases will be Q30 or better and in practice many of their runs are greater than 95% Q30 or better quality. In addition to this, other vendors chemistry cannot sequence through repetitive regions without quality scores crashing irrecoverably. Element has shown that although heavily repetitive regions are not great quality, their chemistry returns to good quality after the region and is able to sequence normally. In the words on one of our informaticists here at the U, “this opens up lines of questioning we have not been able to ask before!” No other product on the market can achieve these gains. Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification.