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#49 – Ajay Karpur on Metagenomic Sequencing

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Are There Any Bottlenecks?

There's the cost that i mention, the turn around time. There's the complexity as well. A, it quiresu no skilled laborer to be able to take a crude sample and then prepare it and actually sequence it and do something useful with it. An, ideally what we want is to just take that crude sample, as mentioned, stick it in a cartridge, put it in a box and press a button, and then walk away. I think probably some of this work has been done in the arm labs of some of these, like, larger sequencing companies.

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