Bio-IT World April 7, 2022
There was no escaping last week’s announcement that the final 8% of the human genome—the equivalent of an entire DNA chromosome—has been sequenced, filling a gap left nearly 20 years after the Human Genome Project declared victory. More than 100 researchers from around the world collaborated on the initiative and many of them, and the institutions they represent, have weighed in on the feat.
Where the original $3 billion project failed was in reading the many big chunks of DNA containing highly repetitive sequences, which in 2003 were largely dismissed as junk. “It turned out that many of the regions I was interested in were in the gaps,” remarks University of Washington investigator Evan Eichler, in a news report posted...
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