The Fastest Learning Curve in History
Human genome sequencing has become over a million times more abundant since 2003. Now the price may drop another 90 percent from $1,000 to $100.
In 1990 a goal was set to map the entire three-billion-letter human genome. The U.S. government spent $3.8 billion to fund the project in general with a fraction going towards the human genome sequencing.1 Craig Venter helped move things along and the project came in three years early in 2003. The completion coincided with the 50th anniversary of Watson…