An estimated 5 million complete human genomes will be sequenced by 2020

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Genomics pioneer Craig Venter

In 2000, researchers finished the first draft of the human genome. Although the decreasing cost of the technology has far outpaced Moore’s Law since then, we have yet to fully leverage all that new information, to make it really useful.

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Social Networking Analysis and Genomics Solve Mysterious TB Outbreak

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Scientists used social-network analysis to find the origins of an outbreak of tuberculosis (top).

It was the baby’s case that first caught people’s attention: an infant in a medium-sized community in British Columbia that was diagnosed with tuberculosis in July 2006. When public health workers took a deeper look at the community’s medical records, they found a number of additional cases suggestive of an outbreak. By December 2008, 41 cases had been identified, bumping up the region’s annual incidence rate by a factor of 10.

 

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