TWO machines the size of refrigerators are in a room at the end of the right wing of the Eijkman building in the complex of Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM), Jakarta. The one is labeled Illumina NovaSeq 6000 and the other bigger one, BGI DNBSEQ-T7. Still another, Oxford Nanopore PromethION, is not yet installed in the laboratory owned by the Biomedical and Genome Science Initiative (BGSi). “The machines are purposely made diff