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Ehh, not really for any appreciable amount of sequencing, w've been pegged right around ~$1000/human genome for a while now [1]. The machine mentioned in the N
by aroch 7y ago
Ehh, not really for any appreciable amount of sequencing, w've been pegged right around ~$1000/human genome for a while now [1]. The machine mentioned in the NYT article is almost certainly a variant of Thermo's RapidHIT system[2], which is not DNA sequencing.
[1]: https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequencing-Costs-Data https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen...
[2]: https://assets.thermofisher.com/TFS-Assets/GSD/brochures/rapid-dna-brochure.pdf https://assets.thermofisher.com/TFS-Assets/GSD/brochures/rap...
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