A new technology to sequence

[Llopis]

I recently read about Quantum Biosystem which identifies

base molecules by measuring tunnel current through nano-electrodes as DNA/RNA passes through nanogaps, and by calculating the current difference. Each chip has a nanogap through which only a single strand of DNA or RNA passes, and the device uses nanoelectrodes (one molecule-wide gap between electrodes) to measure tunnel current.

They have just sequenced the first nucleotides and are available on their web after registration, if anyone want to check how their output looks like.
I found surprising that they affirm it will be faster than other technologies.
Do you think this technology has future and if so how will affect other companies?

[dpryan]

Have a look over in this thread for some of the original discussion of Quantum on the forum. They look promising, but things seem far from ready for prime time yet (the read lengths are too short to be usable, but presumably they're working on exactly that). If they can get longer reads then they'll have a nice product. The question will just be one of scalability...