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Here's the Sequencing & Moore's Law plot that I'm tired of seeing in every genome sequencing presentation ever. https://wi-images.condecdn.net/image/W5YlBgPjX36
by atg_gcg_aca_aca 9y ago
Here's the Sequencing & Moore's Law plot that I'm tired of seeing in every genome sequencing presentation ever.
https://wi-images.condecdn.net/image/W5YlBgPjX36/crop/1620 https://wi-images.condecdn.net/image/W5YlBgPjX36/crop/1620
Since 2013, Illumina's brought the price of a genome to about $1k with the HiSeq X, which essentially scales up their existing tech. No idea what the next few years hold, but I'm excited to see insurance companies beginning to cover genome sequencing as an affordable diagnostic tool.
- tintor 9y agoIs there an updated plot going up to 2017?
- martinpw 9y agohttps://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/update-on-genome-sequencing-costs.html https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/update-on-genome-seque... Interestingly the cost had not dropped in the past two years. Also the graph references genome.gov but that site appears to be unavailable at the moment.
- bayesian_horse 9y agoThe question is also what exactly you get. Illumina's technology gives you very short pieces of DNA. I'd call it confetti sequencing. Pacbio and Nanopore both go for longer sequences. This is important when trying to assemble the pieces to a bigger picture.