Since the advent of the ABI SOLiD, the cost of sequencing a base has fallen by half about every five months. The cost of storing each byte of data is dropping, too, but more slowly, halving ...

The DNA sequencing companies have been engaged in ... In response, Illumina and Solexa charged that ABI's SOLiD system infringes several Solexa patents. Jury decisions thus far have fallen both ...