Tongue in Cheek Look at the $1000 Genome

This post at AllSeq has a list of seven important things to consider if you want to deliver $1000 genomes using Illumina's HiSeq X platform, most of which can be realistically met (for a megaproject), except for these two points:

• You don’t need to pay for the building you’re in and you can work in the dark. The budget doesn’t include overhead.
• You don’t really want to analyze or store the data. The $1000 might get you a basic alignment, but nothing else.

Besides overhead, analysis of data has become, and probably will remain for the foreseeable future, the more expensive part of doing genomics.