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.
Labels: Genetics