No, I was mentioning the sales because they offer a measurement of what WGS costs end to end now—presumably Veritas/Dante or Nebula are offering at close to their marginal cost (as they aren’t big or wealthy enough to afford to give it away and WGSes aren’t exactly a repeat-customer business). As far as Dante goes, I have seen some complaints about very slow or inconsistent service; on IRC, one of us did a previous sale and their original spit didn’t work, so they sent him another tube and forgot the postage. Not sure if he’s gotten his WGS yet either.
I see. Given that I haven’t done a genotype yet, would you suggest that I go through with Dante anyway, or wait until the price comes down further? (Presumably it would definitely be worth doing at $100?)
Well, do you have anything in mind specifically to do with it? If you do, it may not be worthwhile to wait. But if you don’t have something which needs to be done with a WGS right now, you probably aren’t going to be struck with inspiration once you get your download either.
No, I was mentioning the sales because they offer a measurement of what WGS costs end to end now—presumably Veritas/Dante or Nebula are offering at close to their marginal cost (as they aren’t big or wealthy enough to afford to give it away and WGSes aren’t exactly a repeat-customer business). As far as Dante goes, I have seen some complaints about very slow or inconsistent service; on IRC, one of us did a previous sale and their original spit didn’t work, so they sent him another tube and forgot the postage. Not sure if he’s gotten his WGS yet either.
I see. Given that I haven’t done a genotype yet, would you suggest that I go through with Dante anyway, or wait until the price comes down further? (Presumably it would definitely be worth doing at $100?)
Well, do you have anything in mind specifically to do with it? If you do, it may not be worthwhile to wait. But if you don’t have something which needs to be done with a WGS right now, you probably aren’t going to be struck with inspiration once you get your download either.