In November 2011, BGI Research Institute launched the 3-Million Genomes Project, which is made up of the Million Plant and Animal Genomes Project; the Million Human Genomes Project; and the Million Microecosystem Genomes Project.
In February 2013, BGI had already claimed to have sequenced 50,000 whole human genomes.
With a U.S. nonprofit, Autism Speaks, BGI is being paid to sequence the DNA of up to 10,000 people from families with autistic children. For researchers in Denmark, BGI is decoding the genomes of 3,000 obese people and 3,000 lean ones.
BGI has also sequenced 115 different kinds of cucumbers.
It would seem that BGI could fulfill the 3 million genome project by sometime around 2014-2016.
In June, the UK announced the formation of Genomics England, a company set up to execute the £100 million project. They are targeting 100,000 whole human genomes sequenced by 2017. The sequencing centers will be ready by 2015, when the project kicks off in earnest. “Then we will be sequencing 30,000 whole-genome sequences a year,” says Caulfield.
The US national human genome research institute provides the above chart of costs of whole genome sequencing.
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In February 2013, BGI had already claimed to have sequenced 50,000 whole human genomes.
With a U.S. nonprofit, Autism Speaks, BGI is being paid to sequence the DNA of up to 10,000 people from families with autistic children. For researchers in Denmark, BGI is decoding the genomes of 3,000 obese people and 3,000 lean ones.
BGI has also sequenced 115 different kinds of cucumbers.
It would seem that BGI could fulfill the 3 million genome project by sometime around 2014-2016.
In June, the UK announced the formation of Genomics England, a company set up to execute the £100 million project. They are targeting 100,000 whole human genomes sequenced by 2017. The sequencing centers will be ready by 2015, when the project kicks off in earnest. “Then we will be sequencing 30,000 whole-genome sequences a year,” says Caulfield.
The US national human genome research institute provides the above chart of costs of whole genome sequencing.
Read more »
Reposted via Next Big Future
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