THe article notes ~$5K to sequence a genome, it sounds like we are pretty close to ~$1K genome sequence[0] going into production. This is a great thing.<p>The privacy concerns surrounding this topic are <i>very</i> real and <i>very</i> complicated. It took me a long time to make up my own mind, however, I am convinved this is a great step forward. Having access to the sourcecode of 8 Billion github repos, if you had the technology to process the data, would make you quite good at fixing bugs so to speak.<p>The value of a genome will be quite high in the future, and if we allow the data sets to be public this will cut out many IP issues. Anonymizing the data is fundamental, as is an open process and total transparency around collection, storage and the resulting sequence. All this data needs to be public and free.<p>The value of rare genomic anomolies will be evident in the near future, and having public data is a way to combat unethical testing or information siloing.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;is-the-1-000-genome-for-real-1.14530" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;is-the-1-000-genome-for-real-1.14...</a>