Sub $1,000 Genome may soon be reality

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	Sub $1,000 Genome may soon be reality

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4-25-2008 1:32 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8dc67fce-b1e0-4c73-8378-a710dbc48a02/BD9C0D64-0BD5-4ECD-82E0-DA238E18F860/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.technologyreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.technologyreview.com/img/EE7C0461-CF62-4A4C-A9F5-6361E702AC91" alt="Technology Review - Published By MIT" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/"><H1>The $100 Genome</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/"><P id="dek">Forget the $1,000 genome. Some companies are looking far past that goal to create a <I>really</I> inexpensive sequencing technology.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.technologyreview.com/img/81EF16AF-DE25-4B78-8C85-8F246D0A3222" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="ArticleCommentsCell"><B>Cheap sequence:</B> Threading long DNA molecules through nano-sized channels on a specially fabricated chip could provide a cheaper way to sequence DNA. This image shows a wafer developed by BioNanomatrix. Each rectangle is a nanoanalyzer chip lined with 50,000 channels. 
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</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/">The most recent figures for sequencing a human genome are $60,000 in about six weeks, as reported by <A target="_blank" href="http://press.appliedbiosystems.com/corpcomm/applerapress.nsf/ABIDisplayPress/F426CD6F553255C2882574090082573E?OpenDocument&type=abi">Applied Biosystems</A> last month. (That's down from $3 billion for the Human Genome Project, which was sequenced using traditional methods and finished in 2003, and about $1 million for James Watson's <A target="_blank" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18809/">genome</A>, sequenced using a newer, high-throughput <A target="_blank" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18625/">approach</A> and released last year.)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20640/">But two companies, <A target="_blank" href="http://completegenomics.com/index.html">Complete Genomics</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.bionanomatrix.com/index.html">BioNanomatrix</A>, are collaborating to create a novel approach that would sequence your genome for less than the price of a nice pair of jeans</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BD9C0D64-0BD5-4ECD-82E0-DA238E18F860/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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