{"id":33420,"date":"2017-01-12T21:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/soon-you-could-have-your-genome-sequenced-in-60-minutes-for-100"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:57:53","slug":"soon-you-could-have-your-genome-sequenced-in-60-minutes-for-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/soon-you-could-have-your-genome-sequenced-in-60-minutes-for-100","title":{"rendered":"Soon, You Could Have Your Genome Sequenced in 60 Minutes for $100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soon-you-could-have-your-genome-sequenced-in-60-minutes-for-100.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Illumina claims its new NovaSeq sequencing machine will one day be able to sequence an entire genome for less than $100, a process that currently costs about $1,000.<\/li>\n<li>Cheaper genome sequencing could revolutionize healthcare, allowing doctors to prescribe individualized treatment options for patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are an estimated 25,000 genes in the human genome, comprised of approximately 3 billion nucleotide base pairs. It took the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/10001772\/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Genome Project (HGP)<\/a> approximately 15 years and $2.7 billion to sequence the entire human genome (minus about 1 percent) using the DNA of several volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, San Diego-based sequencing company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illumina.com\/systems\/sequencing-platforms\/novaseq\/introduction.html#.WHZrSPkrLIV\" target=\"_blank\">Illumina<\/a> has debuted a new sequencing machine, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illumina.com\/systems\/sequencing-platforms\/novaseq.html\" target=\"_blank\">NovaSeq<\/a> (NovaSeq 5000 and NovaSeq 6000), that it says will one day be able to sequence an entire genome for less than $100 in fewer than 60 minutes. This is a steep difference in both cost and time compared to that first sequenced genome, but it follows the trend. In 2006, Illumina released their first machine, which could sequence a genome for $300,000, but by last year, that price had dropped to $1,000.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/soon-you-could-have-your-genome-sequenced-in-60-minutes-for-100\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/soon-you-could-have-your-genome-sequenc...s-for-100\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief Illumina claims its new NovaSeq sequencing machine will one day be able to sequence an entire genome for less than $100, a process that currently costs about $1,000. Cheaper genome sequencing could revolutionize healthcare, allowing doctors to prescribe individualized treatment options for patients. There are an estimated 25,000 genes in the human genome, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59166,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420\/revisions\/59166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}