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Published online 6 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1151
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$5,000 genome next year, company promises
Complete Genomics is about to release fast, cheap sequencing into a competitive market.
The era of the $1,000 genome has arrived. That's the claim from Complete Genomics, a young company based in Mountain View, California, that revealed today that it plans to sequence 1,000 human genomes next year — and 20,000 in 2010.
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good one
I agree
Great article. However, having said that, there is a little unknown start-up company flying under the radar that has the technology to sequence the human genome, which will truely usher in the era of the $1,000 genome.
That is really amazing.
I hope very soon we'll get a news "$1000 genome in just one day".
I wonder what will be the possibility of applying such technology in agriculture.
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If you "screen out" patients from future trials who might have adverse effects, therefore, you must, to be fair, "screen out" and prevent customers who might have adverse effects, from buying the drug