Sharp Drop In DNA Sequencing Prices In 2015

The cost of sequencing a human genome has taken a sharp dive in 2015. Getting close to $1000. You will notice the rate of change has varied. The decline sped up sharply in 2008, falling one and a half orders of magnitude in a single year. As measured logarithmically 2008 was the year of sharpest price decline. The rate of decline in 2012, 2013, and 2014 was pretty slow. I'm happy to see the decline has sped up again. What is the current price of full genome sequencing? That depends. A genome normally gets sequenced multiple times because a single pass through it will have errors. 30x times is considered medical grade and costs $1850 right now. Today spending that...

Source: FuturePundit - November 2, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs