Forget the $1000 genome, how about $100! While you wait!
Would you like your genome sequenced in a matter of hours for under $100?
An article from GenomeWeb last week, “Complete Genomics, BioNanomatrix to Use $8.8M NIST Grant to Develop ‘$100 Genome’ Platform,†reveals that BioNanomatrix and Complete Genomics have partnered together to share an $8.8 million grant from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to “develop technology that will be able to sequence a human genome in eight hours for less than $100.â€
From the article (don’t worry, I have no idea how these technologies really work either):
“The proposed sequencing platform will use Complete Genomics’ sequencing chemistry and BioNanomatrix’ nanofluidic technology. The companies said they plan to adapt DNA sequencing chemistry with “linearized nanoscale DNA imagingâ€to create a system that can read DNA sequences longer than 100,000 bases quickly and with accuracy “exceeding the current industry standard.â€â€
So what does this mean for genetic genealogists? Well, considering many genetic genealogy tests cost substantially more than $100 and return a much smaller amount of sequencing, whole genome sequencing for $100 would have a pretty strong impact. Although this technology requires a considerable amount of development, there has been a lot of recent investment and remarkable progress in this area.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
Credit: CCG Metamedia, Steve Rothman, Cathryn Tune, Nicola Landucci, Joseph Speiser, Samantha Belmont Web 2.0 in Healthcare (healthinformaticsblog.com): A great aggregation of the web 2.0/health 2.0 movement. [IMG ]Forget the $1000 genome, how about $100! While you wait!(The Genetic Genealogist): “develop technology that will be able to sequence a human genome in eight hours for less than $100″
October 1st, 2007 at 3:25 pm
An interestingpostin The Genetic Genealogist. Things are definitely moving in that direction.
October 7th, 2007 at 3:19 am
Health IT must come a long way before we can really start to appreciate its help in creating personalized medicine. How ever wil the hold our genome in their databases. This is priceless data unless you paid 100 USD while you wait. Thanks toBlaine at the genetic genealogistfor this. But wait, it gets better. Illumina’s CEO carries his genome on his iPhone. He either must be extremely rich and not worried about life or health insurance or he is just stupid. Thanks to Clinical Cases
December 12th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Blaine
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January 26th, 2009 at 10:40 am
And would you like your genome sequenced in a matter of hours for under $100?
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