4 thoughts on “The crash of the cost of genome sequencing”
This should amaze anyone but it seems extra crazy when I think back to running sequencing gels by hand in the early 90s. And I only did a handful during a short stint as a lab tech. Must be especially astounding for anyone who did a doctorate in that dark era.
You did old school sequencing once, right? I’m a bit fuzzy on how early your genomics bent started. Undergrad?
What about gene synthesis? I’m more interested in writing rather than reading.
I’d like to see the first derivative of that curve, with Moore’s Law as a horizontal line and 2007 as a deep trough.
I just happen to be reading Richard Dawkin’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” written in 2009. In it he posits a “Hodgkin’s Law” (slightly slower version of Moore’s Law) for DNA sequencing growth using data from 1960 to 2008. He predicts, with great excitement, that the cost to sequence a human genome will be less than $1000* “just this side of 2040″… boy was he wrong 🙂
This should amaze anyone but it seems extra crazy when I think back to running sequencing gels by hand in the early 90s. And I only did a handful during a short stint as a lab tech. Must be especially astounding for anyone who did a doctorate in that dark era.
You did old school sequencing once, right? I’m a bit fuzzy on how early your genomics bent started. Undergrad?
What about gene synthesis? I’m more interested in writing rather than reading.
I’d like to see the first derivative of that curve, with Moore’s Law as a horizontal line and 2007 as a deep trough.
I just happen to be reading Richard Dawkin’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” written in 2009. In it he posits a “Hodgkin’s Law” (slightly slower version of Moore’s Law) for DNA sequencing growth using data from 1960 to 2008. He predicts, with great excitement, that the cost to sequence a human genome will be less than $1000* “just this side of 2040″… boy was he wrong 🙂
* actually GBP 1,000 so about US$1,250