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I.B.M. Joins Pursuit of $1,000 Personal Genome
- biohacker42 17y agoThe I.B.M. approach is based on what the company describes as a “DNA transistor,” which it hopes will be capable of reading individual nucleotides in a single strand of DNA as it is pulled through an atomic-size hole known as a nanopore. A complete system would consist of two fluid reservoirs separated by a silicon membrane containing an array of up to a million nanopores, making it possible to sequence vast quantities of DNA at once. If you can read individual nucleotides, down the road you just might be able to synthesize individual nucleotides, DNA strand, perhaps whole chromosomes. And do it with accuracy far greater then cell division, much better error detection. And this brings tissue manufacturing that much closer.
- smharris65 17y agoWhy can't these projects leverage work done in the "Crossbow" project? According to the Crossbow website(http://bit.ly/3xu47z http://bit.ly/3xu47z): it can "analyze an entire genome in one day on a 10-node local cluster, or in about 3 hours for less than $100 using a 40-node, 320-core cluster rented from Amazon's EC2 utility computing service."
- biohacker42 17y agoSoftware vs wetware. This is just the software part, you still need something to physically detect the DNA.