Make Room for Big Blue: IBM the Latest (and Largest) Entrant in the Race for the $1,000 Genome
The quest for the $1,000 genome—viewed by many as the point at which whole-genome sequencing will become cost-effective and widely available—is a fierce competition populated by a cast of start-ups and specialized genomics companies.
The most well-known entrants in the next-generation sequencing market are companies such as Oxford Nanopore, Pacific Biosciences and Complete Genomics; names that are hardly familiar to the average patient or consumer. And the wilder the sequencing claims—e.g., a full genome “for less than $100 in under an hour“—the more obscure, at least for the moment, the company: Halcyon Molecular, BioNanomatrix and NABsys among others.
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