#TECHNOLOGY
$100 Genome Sequencing Will Yield a Treasure Trove of Genetic Data:Chinese firm BGI says it has created a system that can sequence a full genome for just $100. That’s a roughly six times improvement over state-of-the-art technology.
The key to the breakthrough is a significant increase in the size of the chip that is used to analyze genetic data, so twice as many genomes can be processed at once.
The company says that the system will be made available to customers later this year.
"It could soon be common to sequence the DNA of every child at birth".
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