The project will produce a rough draft of the complete genome next spring, with a final version in three to five years.

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People still do not understand how a lab works, how sequencing a complete genome still remains a very, time, energy, memory, staff consuming activity.

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The researchers, along with other scientists across the world, are now working to sequence the complete genome of other close relatives to humans, including gorillas and orangutans.

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In a matter of a few years (if not months), you and I will be able to get our complete genome sequenced for the cost of a night out at a decent restaurant.

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RFLP-based databases, it will probably be true manyfold for medical databases that hold data on particular genes, and may well be linked to samples that could, in the fullness of time, yield the complete genome of an individual.

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Further more exome sequencing is a questionable working model as companies will now be able to sequence a complete genome at a lower cost than one utilizing array exome capture and potential bias, why a company would offer that as the preferred service is odd.

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With a complete human genome, including polymorphisms, on a chip, that would not be too hard.

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But the complete El Tor genome now allows Dr Mekalanos and his colleagues to start comparing it with non-pathogenic strains.

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"Our ability to grow Plasmodium in the fruit fly is especially fortunate because scientists recently determined the complete sequence of the Drosophila genome, " says Dr Shahabuddin.

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