{"id":29753,"date":"2010-10-23T20:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-genomics-future-is-almost-now-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-10-23T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T20:51:05","slug":"the-genomics-future-is-almost-now-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-genomics-future-is-almost-now-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"The genomics future is almost now | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/news-from-future.html\">Stephen Hsu<\/a> on developments at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beijing_Genomics_Institute\">Beijing Genomics Institute<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><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). <b>According to him, they can be profitable at a price of $5k per genome! <\/b>[Clarification: I later learned this might mean at 10x coverage ... not exactly sure, although I tried to get a more precise statement.]<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Five years ago I asked <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/10-questions-for-armand-m-leroi.php\">Armand Leroi<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>[Q] <b>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)<\/b><\/p><p>[A] Yes.<\/p><p>It looks like I didn&rsquo;t anticipate the rate of change in this area, as 10 years was also certainly too conservative or pessimistic. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" 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&rsquo;ll hit a genome at the cost of a month&rsquo;s salary for a professional person on the order of months and not years.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8929e_ApDQOHYDCJI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hsu on developments at the Beijing Genomics Institute: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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-genomics-future-is-almost-now-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}