Without a doubt, the quarter-century-old Sanger sequencing method performed like a champ during the Human Genome Project. But with the capacity to read only a few hundred bases per reaction, it is far ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now soliciting proposals for funding to work toward the much-vaunted $1000 genome. Earlier this month (February 12), the NIH published a request for ...

The pivotal leap in genome technology that helped lead to the $1,000 genome was in 2014, when improvements were made across the sequencing chain. Enhancements in the chemistry, imaging ...

Genome sequencing is more affordable than ever; in fact, we are nearing the benchmark of a "$1,000 genome" (Wolinsky, 2007).

Its benchtop sequencer can sequence a human genome in one day, at a cost of just $1,000 per genome. Its desktop gene-sequencing machines costs $50,000, about a 10th as much as other machines.