A few months ago Ultima Genomics promised the world DNA sequencing at $1/Gigabase. My first reaction was: doesn’t it already cost about that? Illumina have huge margins. Sure as a user I might have to pay the hugely inflated price of $4 per gigabase. But surely the COGS is far less. Recently someone asked me about this again and I decided to see if I could guesstimate the $/Gb for various sequencing platforms. You can find the source spreadsheets and my notes
Cost per Gigabase
Cost per Gigabase
Cost per Gigabase
A few months ago Ultima Genomics promised the world DNA sequencing at $1/Gigabase. My first reaction was: doesn’t it already cost about that? Illumina have huge margins. Sure as a user I might have to pay the hugely inflated price of $4 per gigabase. But surely the COGS is far less. Recently someone asked me about this again and I decided to see if I could guesstimate the $/Gb for various sequencing platforms. You can find the source spreadsheets and my notes