Just over three years ago, it was announced that a first draft of the human genome sequence had been completed. Gaps and errors remained, but the job of fixing those problems is now largely done. This issue of Nature features an article entitled "Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome". It has been authored by members of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (IHGSC), and appears on page 931. The article marks the latest, but by no means the last, milestone in this historic project. But readers can be forgiven for being a bit confused by the announcement. Wasn't the human genome 'finished' several years ago?
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