Bio-IT World October 20, 2023
Contributed Commentary by Ephrem Chin, Revvity Omics
October 20, 2023 | There has perhaps never been a more exciting time to work in genetics. Thanks to technological advances and information sharing through various industry and academic collaborations, we know more today about the human genome and how it influences human health than could have ever been previously imagined.
Twenty years ago, scientists completed the Human Genome Project that produced a DNA sequence accounting for roughly 90% of the human genome. This effort took 13 years of Sanger sequencing and billions of dollars to complete. The same endeavor, if pursued today using current next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, could take just a single day. This...