Its amazing to see the costs of sequencing DNA erode so rapidly. It's fostering some great innovation and business. I not every day in this industry that you see small start-ups developing unique approaches that compete with power houses such as Agilent Technologies and IBM.

[Illumina] just sold 128 HiSeq 2000 machines to the Beijing Genomics Institute. The machines can sequence two people’s genome for less than $10,000. Other companies such as Affymetrix, Agilent Technologies, and Helicos BioSciences are working on genetic sequence machines too.

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The author Boonsri Dickinson is great to follow too.