Genomics' X prize

the $10 million prize for 10 genomes in 10 days for $10,000 .... getting close to a winner, but the question is the QC judging...

1000 Genomes Project

The first major paper from the project was published last week in Nature.

So now we supposed have 94% of human variable sites documented -- including the identification of many 'rare variants'.

An interest snippet from the Nature News article:

"results of the survey revealed, with each person's genome carrying some 250 or 300 so-called 'loss-of-function' mutations that incapacitate the gene in which they occur.

"That's quite a lot — it's on the order of 1% of all genes," says Richard Durbin, a genomicist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, and one of the chief architects of the project."

hamadryas genome

wow, I didn't realize a draft assembly (almost 6x) of the hamadryas genome is already out.