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With $100K Genome in Reach, NHGRI Focuses
Advanced-Sequencing Program on $1,000 Goal

[September 2, 2008]

By Julia Karow and Bernadette Toner

The current round of NHGRI’s Advanced Sequencing Technology grants is likely the last to support so-called “near-term” technologies, which aim to bring the cost of sequencing a human genome to around $100,000. Next year’s awards will be focused on “revolutionary” technologies that will reduce that cost to $1,000 by 2014.

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