Yes, compute is cheap, but it was the actual lab procedure that required expensive equipment while also being time-consuming (although I don't remember the time

Yes, compute is cheap, but it was the actual lab procedure that required expensive equipment while also being time-consuming (although I don't remember the time required, maybe it wasn't that much). I remember the professor mentioning an upcoming machine by Illumina that was soon be able to sequence the DNA without cutting it into pieces, this is probably part of the cost reduction as in this way you wouldn't need to run a multiple alignment algorithm to reconstruct the sequence from the pieces. Thanks for pointing at this resource.