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>I'm guessing that a full DNA scan will be available to the individual consumer for $1000 in about five or six years.

Should be faster than that. I'd put even money down at it being available in three years, probably even 2.5 or 2 years. Genomic sequencing has been one of the fastest Moore's Law analogues in history.



the shotgun sequencing (specifically the assembly stage) directly relies on the advances of the original Moore's Law




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