Next Generation Sequencing

I picked this up via Genome Tehcnology. According to an article at Blomberg.com Church has launched an ambitious project to sequence the coding regions of 100.000 humans, a number that may even increase to a million.

The plan is to tie the genomic information to phenotypic information and health records of the sequenced individuals to create a unique data resource from which novel links between genetic variation and disease can be learned.

Google have been one of the first companies to support the project and apparently have plans of making their Google Health project a front-end to the collected data.