Knome turns to China for genome sequencing
(UPDATED: See below.)
Knome, the Cambridge, Mass., startup that will sequence the entire genomes of 20 customers for $350,000 apiece, launched its business back in November without ever explaining exactly how it planned to carry out the heavy lifting of whole-genome sequencing. At the time, CEO and co-founder Jorge Conde said only that unspecified “partners” would be helping out Knome with the actual work of reading out and analyzing six billion “letters” of DNA for each customer.
Yesterday,… Continue Reading