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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Oct 3;23(10):1097–1106. doi: 10.1111/acem.13027

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Reproduced from www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts. Direct costs associated with DNA sequencing as reported by the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Genome Sequencing Program. To illustrate the nature of the reductions in costs, this graph shows hypothetical data reflecting Moore's Law, which describes a long-term trend in the computer hardware industry that involves the doubling of 'compute power' every two years. If the costs per genome were to follow Moore’s Law going forward, the cost per genome in the year 2022 would be approximately $100.