The next frontier in NGS is long read SMRT (Single Molecule Real Time - PacBio) combined with Oxford Nanopore&#x27;s technology. That is, very long reads combined with massively parallel transcription that doesn&#x27;t rely on light emission.  Illumina-based tech is not going to be part of the equation.<p>Illumina is really only related to traditional Sanger sequencing in that its sequencing by synthesis.