[rubatuga]

Totally agree with everything you said, although I believe the price is closer to 500 than a 1000. I worked at a lab last year which did methylation analysis on rat genomes, and the price for sequencing was not nearly a 1000. Although the analysis was slightly different since they pulled out all the non methylated DNA, we still ended up with >50GB of 50 bp reads that had a decent coverage of the genome. I'm certain that whole genome sequencing would be easier than what I described.