Deciphering DNA, Top Speed
May 4, 2005 | Source: Technology Review
A few companies are close to commercializing technologies that could reduce the high cost of decoding genomes.
Helicos’s technology eliminates many of the expensive and time-consuming steps in conventional DNA sequencing. The machine works, in essence, by photographing the process of DNA replication.
The commerical version will sequence a whole genome in three days for $5,000.