Professor Sequences His Entire Genome At Low Cost, With Small Team

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 05:35 in Biology & Nature

The first few times that scientists mapped out all the DNA in a human being in 2001, each effort cost hundreds of millions of dollars and involved more than 250 people. Even last year, when the lowest reported cost was $250,000, genome sequencing still required almost 200 people. In a new paper, a professor reports sequencing his entire genome for less than $50,000 and with a team of just two other people.

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