Because Moore’s Law has nothing to do with the cost of anything…
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From Adam’s link: “Illumina launched its HiSeq X Ten Sequencer which
delivers the first $1,000 genome at 30x coverage,[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%241,000_genome#cite_note-26 including
reagent costs ($797), instrument depreciation ($137 per genome), and sample
preparation ($55–$65 per genome) amortised over 18,000 genomes sequenced
per year over a four-year operational period”
If most of the costs come from reagents and machine depreciation, then the
tech is there for ~$100 genome, it seems it’s only a matter of scaling up
reagent production.
It might, or maybe oxford nanopore will pan out and we can get a genome for essentially free.
I am realizing how little I understand about DNA.
My friend suggest this course at UBC that starts September 9th. (Free online)
It looks like a good intro to DNA and genes course with very general information.
Rosie Redfield is the best. She’s the one who called bullshit on the Arsenic in DNA thing, and got in trouble for blogging her results before they were “peer reviewed”.