Sequencing DNA genomes has already been cut from $ millions to $ thousands. The technological advances over the past 5 years have been stunning (about 1000X faster/cheaper than Moore's Law). It cost $500 million to sequence the first human genome 10 years ago. It now costs about $5000 (although coverage varies). Not that we know what much of the data means..... There's only 20,000 human genes and two thirds of these are guesswork in terms of what they do.
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Sequencing DNA genomes has already been cut from $ millions to $ thousands. The technological advances over the past 5 years have been stunning (about 1000X faster/cheaper than Moore's Law). It cost $500 million to sequence the first human genome 10 years ago. It now costs about $5000 (although coverage varies). Not that we know what much of the data means..... There's only 20,000 human genes and two thirds of these are guesswork in terms of what they do.