I work in clinical genomics at petermac.org and have background in various areas - high performance computing, automation and analysis of live cell microscopy, bioinformatics and physics. For a list of publications see: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QbnXkRsAAAAJ&hl=en
At the moment I’m trying to get micro-manager to drive an old Illumina sequencer. This has been done for the older Illumina GAIIx but not, to my knowledge, for the Illumina HiSeq which contains some custom hardware.