Why is there such a wide range of prices for whole genome sequencing services?

Below is a list of labs around the country that offer genetic sequencing. What would be the reasons why they each cost a different amount if the end result is that you get a 90GB hard drive with 3+ billion base pairs for your genome?

https://www.scienceexchange.com/services/whole-genome-seq

Topic bioinformatics genetic

Category Data Science


  1. Quality
  2. Certificates (is "for research use only" ok for you?)
  3. There is no "common" or "average" genome, some of the prices are for bacterial some for human(4,6 x 10 ^6 bp (E.coli) vs. 3.3 x 10^9 bp(human))

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