If we are to have medicines tailored to our own versions of specific diseases, rather than the one-size-fits-all type of potions and pills with which we're treated today, then each of us will need a genome scan in our medical files.

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Both firms were among the first to use computerized databases to scan the genome-the "map" or blueprint of 25, 000 or so active genes that contain the code for the body's proteins.

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In the process, DeCode developed proprietary software, dubbed the clinical genome miner, to help researchers scan through its vast databases and find correlations between genes and disease.

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