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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2009 Apr 9;458(7239):719–724. doi: 10.1038/nature07943

Figure 3. Improvements in the rate of DNA sequencing over the past 30 years and into the future.

Figure 3

From slab gels to capillary sequencing and second-generation sequencing technologies, there has been a more than a million-fold improvement in the rate of sequence generation over this time scale.