Our NovaSeq 6000 has been installed and it is producing GREAT data. Each lane produces ~ 5 billion reads 150nt in length (2.5 billion clusters sequenced from both ends) with amazing quality scores. This is a cost effective system for projects that require high depth or that have a large number of samples. It has an output equivalent to over 6 lanes in the HiSeq 4000, but for a portion of the cost. The first sequenced projects included several single-cell transcriptomics, 10x Genomics libraries for de novo genome assemblies and shotgun genomics libraries.
This picture shows flowcells from the NovaSeq 6000, HiSeq 4000, and HiSeq 2500, in that order:
