Toward Your Very Own Genome
The cost of sequencing an individual’s genome today is at least $10 million, which is much too high to allow studies of the genetic basis for disease or to make genomic sequencing part of standard medical care.
That’s why the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md., recently awarded tens of millions of dollars in grant money for research aimed at cutting the cost of sequencing, first to $100,000 and then to $1000. The expectation is that the intermediate cost will be...
Photonics Spectra, November 2005