Using the latest in high-performance-computing technology and state of the art optics, the system's image analysis software, located on the HeliScope™ Analysis Engine, identifies and extracts millions of nucleotide base incorporations from the 48 images produced by the HeliScope™ Single Molecule Sequencer each second - in near real time.

Features are identified according to stringent nucleotide incorporation criteria and catalogued in an “object table” for subsequent base calling and sequence formation.

Above: Images captured on the HeliScope Sequencer are transferred
to the Analysis Engine, which identifies nucleotide incorporations
and pinpoints their locations.