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Achievements DNA Sequencing Costs table shows large drop over time
Achievements DNA Sequencing Costs table shows large drop over time
04 March 2011
As recently reported by Genome.gov, DNA Sequencing costs have dramatically dropped over the past 10 years for most large-scale programs. The cost base chart below is taken directly from the site and represents the cost per megabase, or per genome, of a given sequential analysis.
| Date | Cost per Mb of DNA Sequence | Cost per Genome | |||||||||||||
| September-2001 | $ 5,292.39 | $ 95,263,072 | |||||||||||||
| March-2002 | $ 3,898.64 | $ 70,175,437 | |||||||||||||
| September-2002 | $ 3,413.80 | $ 61,448,422 | |||||||||||||
| March-2003 | $ 2,986.20 | $ 53,751,684 | |||||||||||||
| October-2003 | $ 2,230.98 | $ 40,157,554 | |||||||||||||
| January-2004 | $ 1,598.91 | $ 28,780,376 | |||||||||||||
| April-2004 | $ 1,135.70 | $ 20,442,576 | |||||||||||||
| July-2004 | $ 1,107.46 | $ 19,934,346 | |||||||||||||
| October-2004 | $ 1,028.85 | $ 18,519,312 | |||||||||||||
| January-2005 | $ 974.16 | $ 17,534,970 | |||||||||||||
| April-2005 | $ 897.76 | $ 16,159,699 | |||||||||||||
| July-2005 | $ 898.90 | $ 16,180,224 | |||||||||||||
| October-2005 | $ 766.73 | $ 13,801,124 | |||||||||||||
| January-2006 | $ 699.20 | $ 12,585,659 | |||||||||||||
| April-2006 | $ 651.81 | $ 11,732,535 | |||||||||||||
| July-2006 | $ 636.41 | $ 11,455,315 | |||||||||||||
| October-2006 | $ 581.92 | $ 10,474,556 | |||||||||||||
| January-2007 | $ 522.71 | $ 9,408,739 | |||||||||||||
| April-2007 | $ 502.61 | $ 9,047,003 | |||||||||||||
| July-2007 | $ 495.96 | $ 8,927,342 | |||||||||||||
| October-2007 | $ 397.09 | $ 7,147,571 | |||||||||||||
| January-2008 | $ 102.13 | $ 3,063,820 | |||||||||||||
| April-2008 | $ 15.03 | $ 1,352,982 | |||||||||||||
| July-2008 | $ 8.36 | $ 752,080 | |||||||||||||
| October-2008 | $ 3.81 | $ 342,502 | |||||||||||||
| January-2009 | $ 2.59 | $ 232,735 | |||||||||||||
| April-2009 | $ 1.72 | $ 154,714 | |||||||||||||
| July-2009 | $ 1.20 | $ 108,065 | |||||||||||||
| October-2009 | $ 0.78 | $ 70,333 | |||||||||||||
| January-2010 | $ 0.52 | $ 46,774 | |||||||||||||
| April-2010 | $ 0.35 | $ 31,512 | |||||||||||||
| July-2010 | $ 0.35 | $ 31,125 | |||||||||||||
| October-2010 | $ 0.32 | $ 29,092 |