He says that when whole-genome sequencing arrives, single-gene patents will be of no use.
George Church, a molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer of whole-genome sequencing, is unpersuaded.
This disease prevention work is happening across the board: in human genome sequencing, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and autism.
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The participants in the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium have decided that one mistake in 100, 000 is good enough.
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For diseases like diabetes and heart disease, which have many causes beyond genes, genome sequencing isn't able to predict who will get sick.
Ultimately, scientists say genome sequencing will become so cheap that anyone who wants it will be able to get it for a few thousand dollars.
He directs the MedSeq Project, the first National Institutes of Health study to examine the impact of whole genome sequencing in the practice of medicine.
Illumina recently began selling a smaller genome sequencing machine called Miseq.
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Illumina machines can be tweaked to give data quickly, says Chad Nusbaum, the co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass.
Still, the group issued a policy statement in March that said there are instances where whole genome sequencing can contribute to clinical care, such as in detecting mysterious diseases.
Future research will look at how the microbiome is "established in infants and maintained throughout life, " said Bruce Birren, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
But this sort of whole-genome sequencing, which has so far been completed on five bacteria, should allow a much better understanding of how bacteria work, what they have in common, and what makes individual species unique.
In an accompanying commentary, Prof Ian Small from the University of Western Australia - who was not involved in the research - said the vast variations between the genetic data of angiosperms gleaned from mitochondrial genome sequencing made " untangling their evolutionary histories difficult".
Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.
The first draft has been completed years ahead of schedule thanks to the introduction of new robotic technology and the competition sparked by Celera and its alternative method of sequencing the genome.
The central struggle was between the publicly funded international Human Genome Project, led by Francis Collins, a distinguished scientist and devout Christian, which pursued a slow-and-steady approach to sequencing until Celera, a private company led by Craig Venter, appeared on the scene and boldly claimed that its revolutionary new technique, whole-genome shot-gun sequencing, could do the job in less than half the time.
Brunner and his colleagues used a technique called exome sequencing, which extracts only known genes from the vast expanse of DNA in the human genome as a way to reduce sequencing cost.
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The cost and time taken to sequencing the whole genome of a bacterium has plummeted.
The next decade or two--finally, finally--will see abundant fruit from sequencing the human genome.
People still do not understand how a lab works, how sequencing a complete genome still remains a very, time, energy, memory, staff consuming activity.
New technologies are making sequencing a human genome far cheaper.
Dr Venter was working out his frustrations after having been fired in 2002 from Celera Genomics, a company he helped set up in 1998 with the specific aim of sequencing the human genome faster and better than the public Human Genome Project was managing at the time.
His killer app in Celera's assembly of the human genome was a technique called shotgun sequencing.
It would be an exaggeration to say that the sequencing of the human genome has already made that transition.
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Since the museum opened, the world has made huge scientific discoveries, including the sequencing of the human genome, Clinton said.
Three years later Venter jumped at the chance for the big job, sequencing the entire human genome, at the biotech Celera.
In return, the graduate students let him borrow genetics textbooks and participate in experiments, including the sequencing of the cucumber genome.
Over nine months, Celera has spearheaded one of the great discoveries in the history of science, the sequencing of the human genome.
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