Comments on: Knome turns to China for genome sequencing

By: David Hamilton

David Hamilton — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:42:01 +0000

Allen, thanks for the catch. Pretty sure I transposed “million” and “billion” because that BGI sentence referred both to sequencing capacity (in millions of bp/day) and computing power (in billions — of operations? — per second). Sorry about that.

By: Allen Day

Allen Day — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:30:11 +0000

Erratum. Your paraphrase that BGI “can sequence 50 billion” is off by 3 orders of magnitude. They claim 50 million only on that page.

By: Playing personal genomics catchup : business|bytes|genes|molecules

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:38:54 +0000

[...] Knome, which has said it will sequence the entire genome (as opposed to genotyping) for $350K announced a deal with Beijing Genomics Institute for sequencing services [...]

By: David P. Hamilton

David P. Hamilton — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:00:33 +0000

Thanks — I’ve updated the item.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:22:17 +0000

BGI did announce a services business (probably in anticipation of this announcement) earlier this week, so it looks like their mission statement is changing.