30 million US$? That's the cost to commercially synthesize the complete human genome
It is well known fact that cost of DNA sequencing continues to fall rapidly. As Rob Carlson suggests that “The race to the bottom is well under way”.
In the sequencing world the prices already reached to $5000 and every one is anticipating that sooner it will be on the mark of $1000 per genome. But what if you want the synthesize the whole genome? I am sure even 1 cent per base pair can not convince you to commercially synthesize a haploid human genome with 3 billion DNA base pairs, as matter of fact you will need about 30 million US dollars to do so.
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Hello OzFebruary 11, 2012 at 5:56 pm -
Good move by Elsevier, but company need more than PR efforts to save it's ground. Why so afraid accepting the new reality, open is future.February 11, 2012 at 3:01 am
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Dear Entrepreneur, CXO of unknown start-up with uncertain business model, be grounded and humble. cheersFebruary 10, 2012 at 2:53 am
30 million US$? That's the cost to commercially synthesize the complete human genome http://bit.ly/6LvulI
I am synthesizing many copies of my human genome right now. Too bad nobody will pay me for that
The other end of the problem is that the cost for short synthetic DNA keeps dropping, but it isn’t clear we’ve solved the large assembly problem (perhaps J. Craig’s group is close, but they haven’t hit 10s of megabases yet, have they?). the cost does not scale linearly with size — building really big is really hard.
Very good points Keith, indeed cost does not correlate linearly with size and our ability to synthesize large DNA fragments remains elusive.
cool initiative, thanks!
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