We have now had about two decades of exponential progress in genome sequencing (approximately doubling price-performance each year) from the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003—and in terms of base pairs, this doubling has occurred on average roughly every fourteen months, spanning multiple technologies and dating all the way back to the first nucleotide sequencing from DNA in 1971.[284] We are finally getting to the steep part of a fifty-year-old exponential trend in biotechnology.
