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Cost of sequencing a human genome, 2001–2022

Reading one human genome cost $95 million in 2001 and $525 in 2022: 17 halvings in 21 years, far faster than Moore's law.

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Cost of sequencing a human genome, 2001–2022: 22 points, a line chart.
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The data: 22 points
YearCost per genome ($)
200195,263,070
200261,448,420
200340,157,556
200418,519,312
200513,801,124
200610,474,556
20077,147,572
2008342,502
200970,333
201029,092
20117,743
20125,901
20135,096
20144,008
20151,245
20161,176
20171,015
20181,232
2019606
2020512
2021454
2022525
Source
Our World in Data (minor processing) via National Human Genome Research Institute (2022), DNA Sequencing Costs
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CC-BY 4.0 (Our World in Data, values rounded); NHGRI data public domain
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2026-09-27
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