$100.000-$60.000 today (in 4 weeks time), maybe $5.000 (in 24h) by the end of the year, possibly $100 or less by 2012. That is how much it will cost to sequence your full genome.

Low price means high accessibility. Full genome sequencing will be the 21st century’s blood & urine sample. Your ‘personal map’, your ‘personal risk profile’, your ‘personal manual’ for the price of 10 music albums on iTunes. It takes no genius to see the far reaching consequences of such a development in terms of both possibilities as well as responsibilities.

Complete Genomics and BioNanoMatrix joined up to make it happen … fast!

The method and technology developed by BioNanoMatrix is able to sequence long strands of DNA, up to 2.000.000 letters in length currently and rising, and looks at physical location as well as sequence information at the same time, saving loads of computational time as well. The method and technology is being enhanced now to allow for much longer strands of DNA.

“Further speeding up the process with novel chemistry and advances in nanofabrication, the companies will develop a device that can simultaneously read the sequence of multiple genomes on a single chip.”

Via NextBigFuture

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