DNA Research

Human bacterial artificial chromosome sequenced, whole human genome targeted

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, November 24th, 2005

Solexa, Inc. (SLXA) announced that its scientists have sequenced a human bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC), an important milestone demonstrating that Solexa's reversible-terminator chemistry and clonal single-molecule array technology can be applied to resequence human DNA.

The results of this project, which were presented during the GSAC 2005 Genomes, Medicine and the Environment Conference, demonstrate that Solexa's platform can achieve the data quality, read length and coverage uniformity required for economical and rapid resequencing of human DNA. Solexa expects to be able to deliver whole human genome sequencing at $100,000 per genome.

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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2005-11-24)

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