When the X Prize Foundation announced on October 4 the Archon X Prize for Genomics - $10 million to the first team to build a device that can sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days with at least 98% coverage and less than one error per 100,000 bases, for under $10,000 per genome - it met both excitement and skepticism.
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