We Have to Get Sequencing Back to Moore’s Law: Gilad Almogy, Ultima Genomics

There was a tweet thread at the end of the recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference where researchers took a moment of silence for all the sequencing companies that have announced big plans at the conference and then died. It was clearly aimed at this year’s sequencing tools entrant and buzz-generating Ultima Genomics. The company emerged from stealth the week before AGBT announcing the $100 genome with a purse of $600 million backed by funders including Khosla Ventures, Andreessen, and Founders Fund.