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Figure Of Diminishing Sequencing Costs

Hi,

There was a question earlier about where to find the famous figure showing the number of sequences publicly available.

I have a similar question. I would like to find a recent figure showing the trend in sequencing cost by base pair, maybe with projections for the next years.

Many thanks!

Eric

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updated by Obi Griffith Obi Griffith • written by Eric Normandeau Eric Normandeau

Thanks everyone for your images and comments :)

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written by Eric Normandeau Eric Normandeau

6 answers

Here is one of my favorite from Forbes magazine Forbes_ngs_cost

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written by Khader Shameer Khader Shameer

I have not see this one, thanks. Added to my side deck for future talks

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written by Alastair Kerr Alastair Kerr

Nice one :) New to me too! Anyone with other versions are also welcomed! (this will help my boss with his presentation :P)

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written by Eric Normandeau Eric Normandeau

Someone mentioned at #ASHG2010 that at the rate it is falling, we will start printing money by Sequencing :D

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written by jvijai jvijai

NHGRI has some nice figures from their large-scale genome sequencing program:

http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/

via Todd Smith on Twitter.

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written by Brad Chapman Brad Chapman

Very nice indeed! We seem to have hit a plateau. I will be curious to see the next batch of technologies that will accelerate the decreasing of prices.

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written by Eric Normandeau Eric Normandeau

The graph is also given in this presentation here (Slide 5).

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written by None • None

Oh, yeah, that's it--thanks for that! Nice to have a slide of that.

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written by Mary Mary

Check out Rob Carlson's blog post on "Recent DNA Cost and Productivity Figures from The Economist"

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written by Randy Hall • Randy Hall

My favorite one that I've seen recently is the one from Lincoln Stein's could paper in Genome Biology recently. It's figure 2 in this reference:

Genome Biol. 2010;11(5):207. Epub 2010 May 5. The case for cloud computing in genome informatics.

I can't show you the figure because I have only an actual paper copy. But he graphs (bp/$) pre- and post- NGS sequencing. It's part of a comparison to the cost of storage. But I still think it's an effective figure, and everyone I have shown it to has gasped.

FWIW.

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written by Mary Mary

My favorite part of the figure is that we are quickly approaching the point where it will cost more to store the sequencing information than to sequence it in the first place.

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written by Gww Gww

Here's the image, FWIW:

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Chris Miller Chris Miller

@Chris: thanks--that's nice with the legend. The slide that @none (?) provided is nice to have, but the legend helps too.

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written by Mary Mary

Check Nature 464:670-671 for a 2-page spread on genomes sequenced, cost/human genome, and numbers of base pairs and reads in data repositories.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100331/pdf/464670a.pdf

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Larry_Parnell Larry_Parnell

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