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Or it would put us all of us one excel copy/paste error away from being convicted of murder.
I've said this before but I'll say it again. I worked at Illumina on our first forensic sequencing platform, and after about 3 months on the project, the engineering lead said he never wanted his DNA anywhere near the system. Theory is one thing, but reality is VASTLY different.
And in this case, getting someone framed for a crime doesn't even involve planting a glove or a few drops of blood. It's as easy as database theft, which BTW, happens all across corporate America, and then, one can sequence
Can you give us an example of when this has actually happened, in real life, not in your imagination.
And thus, it's expensive to do it, outside of some hi-tech facilities right now. In a few short years, it gets cheaper and then soon, anyone can do it.
PCR costs like $15 to do right now. A usable PCR machine will run you a couple hundred bucks.
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