Comments on: The genomics future is almost now

By: 30,000 full human genomes by January 1st, 2012? | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:37:57 +0000

[...] of ~50,000 in 2011. Nature’s current tally is ~3,000 genomes sequenced. Though issues of accuracy are still important to remember, it’s pretty striking isn’t it that after 10 [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:22:39 +0000

BGI genomes would not be the most accurate in the world… they are sort of known for their emphasis on quantity over quality.

By: kurt9

kurt9 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:46:08 +0000

Genomics data is useful for determining ancestry. However, the failure of genomic sequencing to identify the “genetic causes” of many diseases that were presumed to be genetic suggests that personal genomic sequencing may not be that useful for health care purposes. This is the reason why I’m unlikely to use any of these services even if genomic sequencing drops to $1000 per person. I think there’s a lot of hype in genomics.

By: steve hsu

steve hsu — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:13:55 +0000

Re: sequencing costs, it’s on a super-exponential (so, faster than Moore’s Law) path. However, a big contributor to this is the drop in computing costs. Taking short reads and reassembling them using big computers is currently the way to go.

By: dave chamberlin

dave chamberlin — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:35:04 +0000

Gordon Moore co-founder of Intel observed that every 18 months chip capacity doubles. Raymond Kurzweil, inventor of speech recognition software noted calculating power doubled every three years from 1910 to 1950. It doubled every 18 months from 1966 to 2000. It is now doubling every year. I can’t remember if Razib has ever graphed the decreasing cost of personal genomics and compared it to Moore’s Law.

By: Biologist

Biologist — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:17:55 +0000

This depends largely on definitions. Accuracy still has to improve a lot.

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