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It is to be frank crazy that we're talking about anything less that a 99.9% match with today's technology. We have platforms that for less that 1000USD can seq
by new299 10y ago
It is to be frank crazy that we're talking about anything less that a 99.9% match with today's technology.
We have platforms that for less that 1000USD can sequence (read) a complete human genome. Each individual has millions of mutations which make them unique. Each position is read with >99% accuracy. Just to make sure in general each position is read >20 times.
For forensics it would be like comparing two very long strings for (very nearly) exact identity.
The only reason we use techniques like DNA fingerprinting is because that's what was feasible in the 1980s and forensics is an extremely conservative discipline.