User:Shawndouglas/sandbox/sublevel1

Table 3 lists the major vendors developing and selling PCR, isothermal amplification, and NGS supplies, instruments, and software for both clinical diagnostics and life science research. "Research use only" equipment like Siemens Healthcare's Fast Track Cycler was ignored for completing the table. The vendor list was largely compiled from vendors identified in a handful of online market reports on PCR, with an added sprinkling of a few additional reagent vendors (e.g., Jena Bioscience, LGC, and New England BioLabs) who address isothermal amplification supplies in addition to PCR. Note that this is not an endorsement for any particular vendor.

Table 3. Major players operating in the global diagnostic PCR, isothermal amplification, and NGS market
Vendor	Shop all products	PCR machines	Nucleic acid extraction and purification machines	Immunoassay analyzers and assays	PCR and qPCR assays	PCR and qPCR enzymes and master mixes	DNA/RNA purification, quantitation, and amplification supplies	LAMP assays	Isothermal amplification enzymes and master mixes	NGS supplies	Supporting labware and supplies	Software
Abbott	Abbott products	✓	-	-	✓	✓	-	-	-	-	✓	✓
Agilent Technologies	Agilent products	✓	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-	-	✓	✓	✓
Becton, Dickinson and Company	BD products	✓	-	-	✓	-	-	-	-	-	✓	-
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.	Bio-Rad products	✓	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	-	-	✓	✓	-
bioMérieux SA	bioMérieux products	-	✓	✓	✓	-	-	-	-	-	✓	✓
Danaher Corporation and its companies	Cepheid products, Beckman Coulter products, and Beckman Life Sciences products	✓	-	✓	✓	-	✓	-	-	-	✓	-
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG	Roche Diagnostics products	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	✓	-	-	✓	-	✓
Jena Bioscience GmbH	Jena Bioscience products	-	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	-	-
LGC Limited and its companies	Lucigen products	-	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	-	-
Merck KGaA	Sigma-Aldrich products and Millipore Sigma products	-	-	-	✓	✓	✓	-	-	✓	✓	-
New England BioLabs, Inc.	NEB products	-	-	-	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	-	-
Promega	Promega products and catalog	-	✓	-	✓	✓	✓	-	-	✓	-	-
QIAGEN N.V.	QIAGEN products	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	✓	-	-	✓	-	✓
Siemens Healthcare GmbH	Siemens Healthcare products	-	✓	-	✓	-	✓	-	-	-	-	✓
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.	Thermo Fisher products and Fisher Scientific products	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	✓	-	✓	✓	✓	✓

The "Software" column of Table 3 represents whether or not the vendor offers laboratory informatics software such as a LIMS or LIS. Those vendors' solutions may or may not be tailored to handle the specific requirements of a clinical diagnostic or virology lab handling COVID-19 and other viruses. (See the next chapter for more in-depth information about working an informatics solution into COVID-19 and other viral testing workflow.) A non-endorsed, representative example of vendors who do include:

Additionally, when in-house knowledge is lacking, a consultant may be required. These consultants are meant to be representative examples of those laboratory consulting firms indicating they have the knowledge to help a laboratory with COVID-19-related testing and other issues. This list is not an endorsement for any particular consultant: