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Biotech / Medical : Complete Genomics GNOM DNA analysis for human genome -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KyrosL who wrote (26)	2/20/2012 11:19:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 45

With this, they can afford to be cheap: forbes.com <... Oxford Nanopore, long the sleeper project to watch in the field of mapping DNA, just announced two products that could dramatically change the field of DNA sequencing: a new DNA sequencer that may be able to handle a human genome in 15 minutes, and a USB thumb drive DNA sequencer that can read DNA directly from blood with no prep work. “‘Game changer’ is an understatement,” says George Church of Harvard University. (Church was one of the inventors on one of the patents licensed to Oxford Nanopore that led to the device.” He ticks off the devices specs: Tiny instruments for $900. Able to read DNA in 10,000-letter stretches — compared to a couple hundred for current technologies. Able to sequence a human genome in fifteen minutes (although you’d need 20 of the server-size devices coming in 2013, not just the USB stick.) ... continued... > Here comes a megaton of data. It seems just the other day that the idea of decoding a single genome was a years-long project of big government taking buildings full of computing power, $3 billion, and years. It was world news when Craig Venter and co did it for only $300 million and still took years. Now people will be able to get it done en masse. Hopefully Complete Genomics will be able to go with the very rapid flow. Mqurice