Saying Moore's Law provided the baseline benchmark for genome sequencing costs feels like an overstatement, maybe a 0.3 correlation at best, not a 0.9 direct influence.
It’s like comparing my weekly food budget to the cost of a new washing machine; both involve money, but the underlying mechanisms are completely different.
Genome sequencing breakthroughs came from biology and engineering, not silicon chip physics.
If the sequencing tech hit a wall—like if my local 100-yen shop suddenly ran out of space for new stock—Moore's Law wouldn't give us a practical solution for that specific bottleneck.