[ExI] Your genome for $5000

Sondre Bjellås sondre-list at bjellas.com
Mon Oct 6 17:35:36 UTC 2008


And 23andMe has dropped to $399!

https://www.23andme.com/

It used to be $1000, not sure how long they have had their service
available, but I think that's a price drop of 60% in one year.

"23andMe was founded in April 2006 by Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki"

I don't think they've been sequensing since 2006, either way, it's progress!

- Sondre

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:07 PM, John K Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> According the New York Times by the second quarter of next year a company
> called "Complete Genetics" will sequence your ENTIRE genome for $5000. This
> appears to be a legitimate company, it has 46 million in venture capital and
> more important it has Leroy Hood working for them, and he is the Henry Ford
> of DNA sequencing.
>
> I knew this was coming but not this fast! I suppose I shouldn't
> be surprised it should be so cheap so fast because the cost has dropped by
> a factor of 10 every year for the last 4 years.  That makes Moore's law look
> like crap.
>
>  John K Clark
>
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