Kaganovich: Human genome sequencing costs plummeted from $3 billion to $1,000
Mark Kaganovich · Mark Kaganovich, SolveBio // Data Infrastructure For Genomics // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital) · Feb 18, 2015 · at 3:01
Mark Kaganovich, co-founder and CEO of SolveBio, presents data on the rapid drop in cost for next-generation genomic sequencing hardware at Data Driven NYC in 2015.
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“This thing can sequence your genome for a thousand dollars, and it, 10 years ago, cost, like, three billion, and was really hard.”
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