Sequencing the mitochondrial genomes of these 39 remains revealed dynamic changes in DNA patterns over time.
Getting better accuracy requires sequencing the DNA more times, which drives the cost back up.
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.
Another of his technologies could allow him to skip sequencing the 99% of DNA that does not contain genes.
Three years later Venter jumped at the chance for the big job, sequencing the entire human genome, at the biotech Celera.
It is run by Paulo Arruda, a Brazilian who led a team of 200 people in sequencing the DNA for sugar cane.
For 15 years, scientists have been sequencing the genes of individual organisms, from lowly bacteria to malaria parasites to dogs and human beings.
Ed Delong at MIT and others have been sequencing the stuff they find in undersea hot vents and the ocean surface for years.
This involves shredding all of an organism's genetic material into pieces in one go by spraying it through a fine nozzle, and then sequencing the pieces without knowing where they came from.
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.
After sequencing the genomes of each of the people involved, tallying the new mutations in the children was simply a matter of comparing the sequences of the parents with those of their offspring.
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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.
See, for instance, this case I wrote about a year ago, or this one, in which sequencing the part of the exome that was on the X chromosome allowed scientists to figure out the cause of a genetic disease that was killing young boys in a Utah family.
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And in the past week, two groups of geneticists, one at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the other at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, have succeeded in sequencing the genomes of coronaviruses isolated from patients in Toronto and Asia.
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.
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.
Kurzweil has been right before, notably by predicting that exponential rate of innovation would allow for the sequencing of the human genome.
But the sequencing of the human genome, an example of the power of industrial-scale science, inspired him, and he wanted to fund something similar.
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In the hoopla that followed the sequencing of the human genome in 2000, much of the excitement centered on the promise of miracle cures molecularly tailored to each individual.
And I think once -- I think we can get an agreement at some point on that, and then we can figure out the sequencing on the rest of this.
And again, I think the European leaders made very clear the fact that the decisions that the Greeks undertake are going to affect, perhaps, the sequencing of the implementation of that plan.
The Economist has, in the past, argued correctly that the sequencing of the reforms was not optimal, with the relatively easy opening up of currency and financial markets preceding the politically more difficult liberalisation of goods and labour markets.
The sequencing of the human genome, the application of powerful genetic tools to identify human disease genes, and the development of powerful imaging and diagnostic tools now make it possible to tackle the causes of diseases more systematically and broadly than ever before.
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The DNA sequencing and the data analysis will be compliant with regulations for lab diagnostics.
Scientists are working on the genetic sequencing of the virus, as well as growing a strain that functions as a vaccine.
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.
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts and Kings College in London found the mutation by doing detailed sequencing of the genes in several families with an inherited form of ALS. The findings are published in the February 27 issue of the journal Science and were partially funded by the ALS Association.
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