For small genomes, it is possible to study genetic variation by assembling whole genomes and then comparing them via whole-genome comparison 6,7. For large genomes, such as the human genome, complete ...

Thirty years out from the start of the Human Genome Project, researchers have finally finished sequencing the full 3 billion bases of a person’s genetic code. But even a complete reference genome has ...

It took almost twice as long to finish the last 8% of the human genome as it did to sequence the first 92%. New laboratory and computational technologies finally enabled Miga and her colleagues to ...