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Re: What costs are exponentially dropping?

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Gene sequencing

the price of genome sequencing is no longer dropping exponentially. And when it was, it was heavily amortized across very expensive machines that masked the true costs.

This. The only current driver of cost reduction in genome sequencing at the moment is subsidization.

Re: What costs are exponentially dropping?

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post #5

Gene sequencing

the price of genome sequencing is no longer dropping exponentially. And when it was, it was heavily amortized across very expensive machines that masked the true costs.

Huh, didn't know this. Surely the cost of the machines has to be included somehow in the cost per basepair?
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