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Re: Knome turns to China for genome sequencing

David Hamilton — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:42:01 -0000

Allen, thanks for the catch. Pretty sure I transposed "million" and "billion" because that BGI sentence referred both to sequencing capacity (in millions of bp/day) and computing power (in billions -- of operations? -- per second). Sorry about that.

Re: Knome turns to China for genome sequencing

Allen Day — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:30:11 -0000

Erratum. Your paraphrase that BGI "can sequence 50 billion" is off by 3 orders of magnitude. They claim 50 million only on that page.

Re: Knome turns to China for genome sequencing

David Hamilton — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:00:33 -0000

Thanks -- I've updated the item.

Re: Knome turns to China for genome sequencing

Deepak — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:22:17 -0000

BGI did announce a services business (probably in anticipation of this announcement) earlier this week, so it looks like their mission statement is changing.