In 2019, in the USA, it will be possible to have more than 99% of our genome sequenced for less than the median salary per household per day (averaged from the year 2019) divided by the average number of people per household.

Created by Mati on 2014-02-25; known on 2020-01-01; judged wrong by Bruno Parga on 2020-01-01.

• Mati estimated 14% on 2014-02-25
• mfb said “What is that value today?Just to check how far away we are today (30 times coverage for 1000$: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ )” on 2014-03-08
• Tuxedage estimated 70% on 2014-03-09
• themusicgod1 said “https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Historic_cost_of_sequencing_a_human_genome.svg seems like we’re at just over 1k$? This is true then isn’t it?” on 2016-05-02
• Bruno Parga said “Median household income: $63,688 // average household size: 2.52 // So, individual income: $25,273 // Per day: $69.24 // Whole-genome sequencing (https://cutt.ly/Yryv7lc)): $599” on 2020-01-01
• Bruno Parga   judged this prediction wrong on 2020-01-01.