Terms of the three-year project call for Gene Check to develop a "low-cost method for accurately detecting and genotyping up to 100,000 SNPs in a single DNA sample," the company said in a statement.
Ultimately, the goal is to devise SNP-detection technology that will genotype more than 20 SNPs per second in a fully automated system at less than $0.02 per SNP. This would enable researchers to genotype 100,000 SNPs for less than $2,000 in less than three hours using off-the-shelf-instrumentation, Gene Check said.