While fighting pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs consulted doctors who coordinated his genetic sequencing and analysis. It cost him $100,000. I hope the price would be low and we would soon get our genome sequencing and analysis done!
Oct 24 2012
Wow! Richard Dawkins’s complete genome sequenced!
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lpetrich
October 24, 2012 at 4:16 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Richard Dawkins got his genome sequenced? Where can I find out more? James D. Watson, one of the discoverers of the double-helix structure of DNA, had gotten his genome sequence, but I couldn’t find out anything about Richard Dawkins’s genome.
In any case, I’ve found a nice article: DNA Sequencing Costs at the National Human Genome Research Institute’s site.
Back in 2000, sequencing a human genome was a heroic effort, costing something like $100 million/genome. Nowadays, it can be done for as little as $10,000/genome.
As sequencing becomes cheaper and cheaper, biologists have been sequencing more and more genomes, including genomes of more and more species. At least a thousand prokaryote genomes and varying amounts of progress on a few hundred eukaryote genomes. I’ve found several proposals to sequence hundreds more, and also 1000 Genomes | A Deep Catalog of Human Genetic Variation
cyberax
October 24, 2012 at 6:35 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
You can get genotyped for $300 ( https://www.23andme.com/ ) right now. It’s easy and anonymous.
It’s not complete sequencing, but it’s good enough for most practical uses.
schpounts
October 24, 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
how does the gene for awesomeness look like?
Phillip Helbig
October 26, 2012 at 4:15 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Jobs invested a lot in new-age woo which probably cost him his life.
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