测序技术在人类基因组计划后有了长足的进展，但是它仍然要求DNA经过一项称为“放大”的步骤，被复制几百万次，然后再用荧光标记。
Sequencing technology has come a long way since the Human Genome Project, but it still requires DNA to be copied millions of times, a step called amplification, and labelled with fluorescent tags.
公司要等到1995年才公布毛细管测序器，但是Hood的设计最终实现了对数以十亿计的碱基对进行分析，对人类基因组计划做出了贡献。
The company wouldn't release a capillary-based sequencer until 1995, but Hood's design would eventually chew up bases by the billion for the Human Genome Project.
人类基因组计划已经完成了计划3000个相关微生物基因组中的500个的测序。
The Human Microbiome Project has sequenced 500 relevant microbial genomes out of a planned 3000.
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