Our genes will be sequenced and recorded at a cost of less than $100.
Patients with cancer will be sequenced twice – once for their healthy cells and once for their tumour cells.
While the Andreggs are reluctant to discuss precise timelines, they expect that within "several years" a complete human genome will be sequenced cheaply (around $100 per genome, rather than the current approximate $10,000 price tag).
Mr deSouza says that in two to three years non-invasive tests will become the norm for pregnancies of average risk, and that within three to five years babies will be sequenced at birth.
Fairly soon, a customer's whole genome will be sequenced, not merely the parts thought to be medically relevant that the testing companies now concentrate on, and he will then be able to crank the results through open-source interpretation software downloadable from anywhere on the planet.
In the coming years, millions will be sequenced.
There, any microbes will be sequenced and cultured.
Many more plant genomes should and will be sequenced, says Stacey.
With the current rate of progress, Green predicts the X chromosome will be sequenced by the year 2000.
Although many genomes will be sequenced in the future, resolution of this aspect of genomic architecture still requires high quality sequences and detailed analyses.
Patient samples will be sequenced, and the resulting raw data stored in a distributed data repository that is appropriately tuned for the storage and retrieval of "big data".
