Competition details
Archon Genomics X Prize 2011
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Website
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Submission deadline
04 of October, 2013504 days left
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First prize
1st U.S.$7,000,000; 2nd U.S.$2,000,000; 3rd U.S.$1,000,000 -
Eligibilities
- Undergraduate level
- Graduate level
- Postgraduate level
- Non-students
- MBA Student
- High School Students
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regions
Global -
categories
- Natural Sciences & Math
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Information Provider
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The purpose of this X PRIZE competition is to develop radically new technology that will dramatically reduce the time and cost of sequencing genomes, and accelerate a new era of predictive and personalized medicine. The X PRIZE Foundation aims to enable the development of low-cost diagnostic sequencing of human genomes.
The $10 million Archon Genomics X PRIZE will be awarded to the first team that can build a device and use it to sequence 100 human genomes within 10 days or less, with an accuracy of no more than one error in every 100,000 bases sequenced, with sequences accurately covering at least 98% of the genome, and at a recurring cost of no more than $10,000 per genome.
If more than one Team attempts the competition at the same time, and more than one Team fulfills all the criteria, then Teams will be ranked according to the time of completion. No more than three teams will be ranked and will share the purse in the following manner: $7.5 million to the winner and $2.5 million to the second place team if two teams are successful, or $7 million, $2 million and $1 million if three teams are successful.
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