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Complete Genomics produces a cheap—well, $5,000—human genome  A
startup company has devised a ligase-based sequencing method
that only burns …  With the newest DNA sequencing technology
starting to reach the market, we're seeing a bit of a
bifurcation. Some of the methods can do long reads, covering
hundreds of bases, and provide data that's appropriate for
assembling a genome that's never been sequenced before. Others
produce lots of shorter reads, which can only be aligned to a
genome that we know the sequence of already. What good is
repeating a completed genome? Potentially quite a lot, if that
genome happens to be human and, more particularly, yours, since
it can provide information on medically relevant issues like
disease risks and drug efficacy. The goal here is to make this
so cheap that sequencing a person's genome could be routine.  A
big step in that direction may have been taken by a company
called Complete Genomics, which describes the