Xiaoyi Gao
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) reveals every base pair of the human genome and offers the ultimate information resolution to researchers. In January 2014, Illumina announced that the $1,000 genome is available. It was a significant achievement in highthroughput sequencing technology since it took more than 10 years to break this long-sought threshold after the completion of the first sequenced human genome, which cost nearly $3 billion. However, the $1,000 price tag is a marketing figure that does not account for analysis or data storage, both of which tend to be more expensive than the consumables.
