Hitting Sequencing Milestone with BAC, Solexa Says It s on Track to $100,000 Genome

Oct 19, 2005

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (GenomeWeb News) - Solexa has used its Single-Molecule Array technology to sequence a human bacterial artificial chromosome -- an "important milestone" that bolsters the company's belief that it will "be the first to deliver whole human genome sequencing at $100,000 per genome," Solexa said yesterday in a statement.

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