Carlson Curve
The cost of sequencing DNA has fallen from about $1 per base pair in the mid-1990s to a tenth of a cent today. Rob Carlson started tracking the price of DNA synthesis a decade ago. He found a steady decline, from over $10 per base pair to, lately, well under $1. This decline recalls Moore’s law, which, when promulgated in 1965, predicted the exponential rise of computing power.