Human Genome Project Complete

nilepoc writes "The Human Genome project is finally done. Done being a relative term, due to the variability of DNA. 'You can think of this as the end of the high-throughput phase of human sequencing. The fact that it's yielded up 99% of the gene-containing DNA at this level of accuracy means that almost everybody who is looking for answers from the genome will find it in the most final form that they ever could have dreamed of,' Collins said in a BioMedCentral Article. Let the patenting begin."

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Science by press-release

[RobotWisdom]

I read the science headlines every day at NewsHub and it's distressing to see how fake a lot of this 'news' is-- if a scientist craves publicity, there are certain themes they can appeal to that the press seems to get excited about for no good scientific reason (the oldest anything, black holes, asteroid impacts, etc).

I'd be interested to know exactly how different this 'really really complete' genome is from the fakety-fake 'complete' genome they announced a few years back.

The rumor then was that it was the egomaniac Venter's own DNA they were using, so calling it 'the' human genome is another big lie-- one of the most interesting uses for the data is to cross-compare different ethnicities (and different species) and use this to reconstruct the human family tree. So the fact that one person's genome is the first to be sequenced will quickly become insignificant to the overall picture.