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> half the human genome was sequenced by a not just private, but a wall-street traded, entity They reportedly were so successful in a large part because of re-
by samuell 6y ago
> half the human genome was sequenced by a not just private, but a wall-street traded, entity
They reportedly were so successful in a large part because of re-using a lot of data already pain-stakingly produced by publicly funded research labs.
- dnautics 6y agoNo, they pivoted to shotgun sequencing earlier, which had better scaling properties because it's self-decoupled. There was a hangup about it only affording asymptotic completeness (aka completeness was "only theoretical") and them they realized how silly that statement is, and how the decoupling trade-off gave them an advantage because of their deep pockets.