Complete Genomics publishes in Science on low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Nov. 5, 2009 — Complete Genomics, a third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced publication of a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of sequence data from three complete human genomes. The consumables cost for these three genomes sequenced on the proof-of-principle genomic DNA nanoarrays ranged from $8,005 for 87x coverage to $1,726 for 45x coverage for the samples described in this report.