When the chemistry was miniaturized and put on a silicon chip, reading DNA became fast, cheap and widespread. Peck was a mechanical engineer by training with a specialty in fluid mechanics Banyai was a semiconductor expert who had worked in genomics since the mid-2000s, facilitating the transition from old-school Sanger sequencing, which processes a single DNA fragment at a time, to next-generation sequencing, which works through millions of fragments simultaneously. The Bills, as they were later dubbed, were biotech veterans. Ten years ago, when Emily Leproust was a director of research at the life-sciences giant Agilent, a pair of scientist-engineers in their 50s - Bill Banyai and Bill Peck - came to her with an idea for a company.
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