X-Prize to Award $10M for Fast Sequencing 48
Shipud writes "The X-Prize foundation has announced the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics — for the first privately financed group to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days. The motivation is to create an incentive for faster, cheaper genome seqeunceing, heralding the era of preventative personalized medicine. The winner will also receive an extra $1,000,000 for sequencing the genomes of 100 additional people; among them Larry King and Stephen Hawking. Apparently this is the largest medical prize in history."
teh win! (Score:1, Funny)
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Dupe (Score:5, Informative)
That means (Score:2)
TFA? Whats that?
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I just read the last discussion. Two of the three score:5 comments were jokes. They weren't even very funny. First one was about Steve Ballmer and his chair throwing as if that thing isn't a cliche. The second one was obvious. It was about XXX-Price and "genetic material". You can figure the rest. It was pretty well writen. Hence, it was,
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Slashdot's target audience is, as a whole, uneducated with respect to molecular biology, genetics, and soforth. Most are pretty good with mathematics, but throw some advanced genetics at them and they will get lost in a hurry. It's just the way this site is.
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a dupe a day.. (Score:2)
Re: X Prize news (Score:1)
Yeah (Score:2, Funny)
Dupe (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, don't welcome our fabulous editing underlords.
Gattaca!!! (Score:3)
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The real goal here is to be able to genetically analyze people, and not what the article claims, to help them. Like any tool, it can be used for good and for bad. Like any new technology, such as aviation, or nuclear, it will probably be first tested out by the military or at least tested out in all its negative connotations before it is put to work for public good. Such people-analyzing technology will allow a new form of racism, or at least some form of historical revenge-taking. How would you like to kno
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We've known of the existence of bloodgroups for years, but I'm fairly sure nobody's been discriminated against on the basis of being O- or A+.
In fact, nobody really cares.
except the japanese. seriously. (ketsu eki gata).
ok but (Score:3, Interesting)
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Easy (Score:2)
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Typical Larry King interview:
Larry: Bob, did you kill your wife as the prosecution claims?
Bob: (covered in blood, holding an axe still dripping from the night's first guest, whose head has been chopped into an unrecognizable blob) No, Larry, of course not. I could never hurt a fly.
Larry: There you have it, folks!
Now, if they'd been going for the extreme
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I would assume to get lots of TV exposure.
jfs
More information (Score:2)
DNA RAR (Score:2)
DNA RAR allows all of your genetic material to be encoded within an encryption program that is both free source code and open source.
All of this fucking harcore science for DMCA.
Woo!
Rules details (Score:5, Insightful)
In short:
An intresting detail:
Note that Human Genome Project mapped and sequenced only some 3Gbp. And that was considered to be whole genome. Basically X-Price want winner to sequence all 46 cromosomes. This sounds quite difficult as the method have to be sure that is has sequenced both of the cromosomes (from a pair), not just the other one twice. And this must be valid all the 3Gbp. By bet? The working method just sequences emultiple chromosomes and determines the exact basepairs statically.
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Edification of Sequencing Data and Error Rates (Score:1)
The quality (i.e. the error rate) must be 0.01%, which is the convention adopted as the Bermuda Standard back when large scale sequencing was becoming mainstream, and the first genomes (of bacteria) were being produced. The coverage must be 98%. Usually, the last 2% are virtually impossible to elucidate because they are so repetitive (e.g. around centromeres) that you cannot tell how many copies of the repeats there are. The repeat regi
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An intresting detail: During each X PRIZE competition test, a TEAM must use its device to sequence within 10 days 100 human dip- loid genomes of 6 Gbp (6 giga base pairs, i.e., six billion pairs of DNA base molecules) each.
Note that Human Genome Project mapped and sequenced only some 3Gbp. And that was considered to be whole genome. Basically X-Price want winner to sequence all 46 cromosomes. This sounds quite difficult as the method have to be sure that is has sequenced both of the cromosomes (f
Wrong name for prize (Score:2)
The Future of Medicine (Score:1)
Additional price? I call bullshit (Score:2)
I've been browsing the site now for some time and haven't found a single shread of evidence for this "extra price". I call bullshit. It's just a joke to mock the slashdot "editors".
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It also seems that if you refuse the 'bonus', you may be penalize by twice that amount from the initial prize.
rules here [xprize.org]. Thanks nyri [slashdot.org]
My money (Score:2)
Real Story (Score:2)
Worthy, but (Score:2)
Government (Score:1)
This is basically a joke... (Score:3, Insightful)
For those of you in other fields, imagine in the next jet propulsion X prize was $10 million to the first group to come up with a working drive capable of 20% of the speed of light within a day of ignition. Or how about a single computer CPU capable of processing 100 peta flops. Or a system capable of cracking a gallon of water but using only 100 joules of electricity.
Sure, some day these may all be possible, but right now they are pie in the sky at best.
The way this will really work.. (Score:1)
Reminds me of a George Bernard Shaw quote (mis-attributed sometimes to Einstein I think). When it was suggested to him by a beautiful woman that they could make super-babies together, he replied:
"But what if they had my looks and your brains?
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