I
proposed last year that there should be a regular racing event for human genomics. The only real competitor in is this interesting race seems to be Steven Kingsmore's group at Rady Children's Hospital. I was sent an embargoed press release from Illumina about a new record by that group, which clocks in at 13.5 hours from patient sample to clinical report. A
New England Journal of Medicine paper (hence the embargo, ending just before I post this) reports on the advance but wasn't in the packet I received.
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