Sequencing one exome (cost of producing genome-level data) in the Regeneron and GSK project on UK Biobank volunteers
estimated cost of $150 million if all 500,000 participants are sequenced
USD per exome sequenced (production cost), UK
“with an estimated cost of $150 million if all 500,000 participants are sequenced.”
GEN, Regeneron, GSK, UK Biobank launch gene sequencing collaboration (23 March 2017), 2017-03-23
- Kind of source
- Named press report
- Read on
- 2026-11-06
- Daily check
- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
- What to know
- What buyers spent to produce an exome per participant, not a price for access. It is the cost floor that a genome record has to recover; exomes only, whole genomes cost more.
- Arithmetic
- $150,000,000 / 500,000 participants = $300 per exome.
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.