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What changed in October of 2007 that accelerated the decrease in price?
Genetics for Dummies
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Innovation!
What happened before is that there were a few ways of sequencing, and people were getting better and better at sequencing using those ways. A lot better! Smaller reagent volumes, combinatorial software, automation, etc.
But then a few people had innovative ideas other ways, using rather different principles. Those other ways were much more efficient, in themselves, and they were quite ammenable to being micronized and automated and scaled into huge projects.
What happened before is that there were a few ways of sequencing, and people were getting better and better at sequencing using those ways. A lot better! Smaller reagent volumes, combinatorial software, automation, etc.
But then a few people had innovative ideas other ways, using rather different principles. Those other ways were much more efficient, in themselves, and they were quite ammenable to being micronized and automated and scaled into huge projects.
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So, here's my update. My OP had a log10 graph. So does this one. There's been a massive acceleration in our ability to sequence DNA. I can now get my DNA sequenced for between $4k and $20k dollars (depending on my circumstances).
This is becoming nuts. And amazing. I think there's real opportunity for people with programming skills, because there will certainly be an opportunity to create apps for people's genetic data. An app that compares my sequence to new research? That would be awesome! An app that compares my sequences to known historical records? That would be awesome. Other ideas that I haven't thought of? That would be even more awesome!
Maybe people will privately pay for their sequences and then upload them to a public genome browser, like the UC Santa Cruz Genome Browser? http://genome.ucsc.edu/
