13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online

Lucas123 writes "The Personal Genome Project, which opened itself up to the public on April 25, has to date signed up 13,000 of the target 100,000 volunteers needed to create the world's first publicly accessible genome database. Volunteers will go through a battery of written tests and then offer DNA samples from which their genetic code will be derived and then published to help scientists discover links between genes and hereditary traits. While the Personal Genome Project won't publish names, just about everything else will be made public, including photos and complete medical histories. Scientists hope to some day have millions of genomes in the database."

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bit late

[LiquidCoooled]

its a bit late,

google images already says there are 286,000 pictures of gnomes already online.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=garden%20gnome Results 1 - 20 of about 286,000