{"id":30536,"date":"2010-10-23T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7377"},"modified":"2010-10-28T04:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:42:57","slug":"the-genomics-future-is-almost-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/23\/the-genomics-future-is-almost-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The genomics future is almost now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/news-from-future.html\">Stephen Hsu<\/a> on developments at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beijing_Genomics_Institute\">Beijing Genomics Institute<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was floored today when the director of BGI told me they would soon reach a sequencing rate of 1000 (human) genomes per day (so, 10^5 to 10^6 genomes per year is right on the horizon). <strong>According to him, they can be profitable at a price of $5k per genome! <\/strong>[Clarification: I later learned this might mean at 10x coverage &#8230; not exactly sure, although I tried to get a more precise statement.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Five years ago I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/10-questions-for-armand-m-leroi.php\">Armand Leroi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Q] <strong>10) If in 10 years you could purchase your own full genome sequence for a month of your salary, would you do it? (assume privacy concerns are obviated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[A] Yes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like I didn&#8217;t anticipate the rate of change in this area, as 10 years was also certainly too conservative or pessimistic. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/geneticfuture\/\">Dan MacArthur<\/a> has given a plausible estimate of ~2 years for the realization of a $1,000 genome, but it looks like we&#8217;ll hit a genome at the cost of a month&#8217;s salary for a professional person on the order of months and not years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hsu on developments at the Beijing Genomics Institute:<br \/>\nI was floored today when the director of BGI told me they would soon reach a sequencing rate of 1000 (human) genomes per day (so, 10^5 to 10^6 genomes per year is right on the horizon). According to him, they can be profitable at a price of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31115,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions\/31115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}