The goal of these efforts is not, as it was for the human genome project, to sequence a few people to build a single reference human genome, but rather to sequence very many people to build a ...

Well, sequencing the human genome is not as easy as A-G-C. The concepts involved, however, are easy to grasp. "Sequence for Yourself" should give you a good idea of the general process.

Although pieces of the human genome were sequenced by 1990, when the HGP was formally launched, the project was the first large-scale attempt to identify the sequence of the vast majority of the ...

Such a Platonic ideal is “the human genome,” a sequence of about 3 billion nucleotides arrayed across a linear scale of position from the start of chromosome 1 to the end of the sex chromosomes.

The entire human genome requires three gigabytes of computer data storage space. (One million base pairs of sequence data equals one megabyte of storage space; the human genome has three billion ...

The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims, including: working out the order or sequence of all the three ...