Thanks to advances in chemistry and software, researchers can soon sequence a human genome for $1,000 in a day.
Back in July, Jonathan Rothberg, CEO of the Connecticut-based biotech company Ion Torrent, predicted that his company would develop a chip that could sequence an entire human genome by 2013.
This week, the company surpassed that prediction with a new tabletop sequencer called the Ion Proton. The company introduced the device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, although the sequencer is only available to researchers at this point.
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