Right, maybe this is where I’m being ignorant, but would there be a way to do the actual sequencing down to a consumer device?
I presume the machines used are pretty complex.
I presume the machines used are pretty complex.
I fact, the database correlating millions of people’s DNA with their medical history and migration history is probably the hardest part.
But the potential market is there. I’d gladly play $1000 to have my sequence, even unanalyzed, with the knowledge no one else does.
1 cursory look at eBay. I don’t know if those sequencing machines are good for human DNA - I hate bio.
So if you purchase all the consumables (flow cells + chemicals) in low quantities, a single human genome will probably run you around $2000 in materials. With the bulk orders from their website you could get it down to half of that (so probably even more if you were doing really big bulk orders).