New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing

An anonymous reader writes "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.'"

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Re:99.999% accuracy

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That character you're using... I don't think it means what you think it means...

Battle Tactics :)

[headkase]

Reminds me of that "Lost in Space" or whatever it was called remake. Terrible movie but remember the scene where they are fighting the spider-things and they slap down a chunk of one onto a machine which pretty much instantly reconstructs the full organism and then goes on to suggest ways to fight it based on how its built? Yeah, this could lead to one of those machines being reality.