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>To give you a perspective, the amount of DNA sequencing required to fully research Grail's test has been estimated as the equivalent of decoding the genomes of
by a_bonobo 10y ago
>To give you a perspective, the amount of DNA sequencing required to fully research Grail's test has been estimated as the equivalent of decoding the genomes of about 400,000 people.
I've been a customer of Illumina, and I've been to their HQ in San Diego - they do so much sequencing (much more than just building, testing and selling the machines) that I wouldn't be surprised if they already had a significant chunk of those 400,000 (edit: as a comparison, 23andMe has the data of about 1.2 million people, but it's not whole genome sequencing - I assume keep the samples and make that a reality, though). They have a few hundred sequencers up and running in the part of the building we went to, with total numbers not being disclosed.