Figure 3.

Costs of generating comparative-grade versus human-grade finished sequence. The estimated average direct time (A; actual “handson” time that a finishing technician worked to finish a BAC sequence), elapsed time (B; interval of time from when a BAC was assigned to a finishing technician to when it was finished to a comparative-grade or human-grade stage), and reagent costs (C) required per BAC to perform comparative-grade and human-grade sequence finishing (starting with full-shotgun draft sequence) is indicated (for details, see text).