Beyond Human: New Faces, Fields Exploit Genomics

摘要

Twenty years ago, the proposal to sequence the entire human genome was met with skepticism, even derision. Ten years later, the completion of the first human genome sequence was a source of awe worthy of presidential recognition. Today, it's a paragraph in a 3-year grant proposal. The Human Genome Project drove a technological revolution in DNA sequencing that has continued since the full draft sequences were published in Science and Nature in 2001. And as sequencing DNA has become faster and cheaper, opportunities have grown for fields outside human biology.