Sunday, March 23, 2014

The $1,000 genome




.................The price of sequencing an average human genome has plummeted from about US$10 million to a few thousand dollars in just six years (see ‘Falling fast’). That does not just outpace Moore's law — it makes the once-powerful predictor of unbridled progress look downright sedate. And just as the easy availability of personal computers changed the world, the breakneck pace of genome-technology development has revolutionized bioscience research. It is also set to cause seismic shifts in medicine...........

Read More Here:  http://www.nature.com/news/technology-the-1-000-genome-1.14901

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