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Sunday, April 18, 2021

Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets [GCN, April 2021]

Title:
Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets
 
Author:
Xavier Bofill de Ros
 
Published:
GCN, 16 April 2021
 
From the article:
The first draft of the human genome was published 20 years ago in 2001, took nearly three years and cost between US$500 million and $1 billion. The Human Genome Project has allowed scientists to read, almost end to end, the 3 billion pairs of DNA bases – or “letters” – that biologically define a human being.