Next Generation Sequencing

Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine sequenced the genome of James D. Watson.
It took them 2 months and 234 sequence runs on a 454 GS FLX System to complete this task. They found 29 Mb of sequence to be absent from the reference genome containing several new genes.

You can find the details in this Nature paper.

A new paper in The New England Journal of Medicine makes the case that the medical field and the public will not be ready to deal with the implications of consumer genomics until more translational medicine connects information from the vast amount of genome-wide association data to personal genomes in meaningful ways. Paper in The New England Journal of Medicine.