Underestimate - from the article, "The team can also analyze many patients at once. To do that, they fuse a unique barcode sequence to the viral DNA from each i

Underestimate - from the article, "The team can also analyze many patients at once. To do that, they fuse a unique barcode sequence to the viral DNA from each individual sample, before mixing them together and running them through VirCapSeq-VERT. After the system does its thing, the team can check the barcodes to work out which sample each virus came from. “We can do up to 21 at a time, which makes it financially viable,” says Lipkin." So, this is the sort of thing that you would do in bulk with a bunch of samples, not on a retail one-at-a-time basis.