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Your DNA is never actually fully sequenced, because that is currently too cost prohibitive Q> Does anyone know the actual/current pricepoint for this?
by 001sky 13y ago
Your DNA is never actually fully sequenced, because that is currently too cost prohibitive
Q> Does anyone know the actual/current pricepoint for this?
- katbyte 13y agogoing by wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_genome_sequencing#2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_genome_sequencing#2012 1000$ - 5500$
- darkmighty 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_genome_sequencing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_genome_sequencing The page cites only 69 people so far had it fully sequenced, and it cost about $100k a few years ago
- berberous 13y agoThat figure is only for publicly available sequences. The cost is now under $5k, and I'm sure thousands, if not tens of thousands, have had it done. (Including me!)
- whyenot 13y agoCurrently about $3,000 and falling. See http://www.genome.gov/images/content/cost_per_genome_apr.jpg http://www.genome.gov/images/content/cost_per_genome_apr.jpg
- mbreese 13y agoNot quite... that it the raw sequencing cost and doesn't cover the prep work required, or likely the computational resources required for processing. It is actually almost to the point where the computational costs are more than the costs of raw sequencing. And, for the places where you can get a $3K genome sequenced, it isn't likely that they will service outside (non-research) customers.