for the better?

jtotheizzoe:

Where we came from:

• 10 YEARS: The amount of time that it took to sequence the first human genome, at a cost of $2.7 billion.
• 9.5 YEARS: The amount of time that it would take you to read the human genome, continuously, were it printed in a book. Oh, and that book would be the size of 200 Manhattan telephone books.
• 3 GIGABYTES: The amount of computer storage that one human genome takes up.

Where we are going:

• 15 MINUTES: The amount of time that Oxford Nanopore’s new single-DNA strand reading technology would take to sequence the human genome.
• $900: The cost of their smallest nanopore genome sequencer (not quite big enough for a human genome, but still). Oh, and it’s the size of a USB drive.

More coming tomorrow. This is a big deal. I love science.