How much actual guidance did Moore's Law provide, on a scale of 0 to 10, for the complex biological engineering needed to sequence a genome?
It feels more like a performance benchmark—a 9 out of 10 for demonstrating rapid change—rather than a direct informational input, perhaps a 2 out of 10, for how to achieve those cost reductions.
The NHGRI's significant cost reductions came from scientific breakthroughs in methodology and new technologies, not from a foundational paper on integrated circuits.
Just as knowing the average return on the Nikkei 225 doesn't explain how to develop a new successful ramen shop, the law offered a comparison, not a process blueprint.
The real progress was earned through hundreds of billions of yen in research and development, not by reading about a pattern in microchips.