New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing

[w1z4rd]

"A new method of DNA sequencing published this week in science identifies incorporation of single bases by fluorescence. This has been shown to increase read lengths from 20 bases (454 sequencing) to >4000 bases, with a 99.3% accuracy. Single molecule reading can reduce costs and increase the rate at which reads can be performed. 'So far, the team has built a chip housing 3000 ZMWs [waveguides], which the company hopes will hit the market in 2010. By 2013, it aims to squeeze a million ZMWs [waveguides] onto a single chip and observe DNA being assembled in each simultaneously. Company founder Stephen Turner estimates that such a chip would be able to sequence an entire human genome in under half an hour to 99.999 per cent accuracy for under $1000.'"

http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2919
|Nice!

 

[cerebus]

Wow...that is very impressive.

 

[rwenzori]

Wow...that is very impressive.

It is, isn't it. Good one!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Impressive.

 

[Tux]

Impressive.

^^^ what the monkey said. Very Impressive indeed.

 

[Phronesis]

This is awesome news. When this technology matures, just about every genome on the planet can be completed 30 times faster (i.e. maybe 10 years or even shorter) and then the fun BLASTing can begin .