Nature this week has published articles describing the genomes sequences of two individuals–one Nigerian and one Chinese. Both were sequenced using Illumina’s short read technology, and the brute force approach of deep sequencing seems to have worked fairly well–they estimate their SNP calling error rate is on the order of 0.6%. Recall that SNPs called from the Venter genome had an order of magnitude more errors.
Dan MacArthur at Genetic Future has more.