The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here

Image caption: Illumina says its NovaSeq X machine will get the price of sequencing down to $200 per human genome. Image © llumina. Article by Emily Mullin, Wired.com. Ars Technica – October 1, 2022. This story originally appeared on wired.com.

The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts—the molecular building blocks that make up DNA. Determining the sequence of all those letters used to take vast amounts of money, time, and effort. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and thousands of researchers. The final cost: $2.7 billion. […]

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