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nyolfen
on Dec 26, 2021
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Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open sou...
what cost do you mean? time/electricity? reagents? or the cost of someone else charging more for more reads?
biophysboy
on Dec 27, 2021
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Yes, those are all relevant costs. There's also a tradeoff between accuracy and the number of reads (how many sequences you can observe), or how much data you can get out of the machine.
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