The $1,000 genome: are we there yet?
The race to the $1000 genome heated up today as Life Technologies announced that it will debut a new sequencing machine this year that will eventually be capable of decoding entire human genomes in a day for less than $1000. The machine, called the Ion Proton, will be the successor to Ion Torrent’s current offering, the Personal Genome Machine (Life Technologies is the parent company of Ion Torrent). Read more