This BBC video is worth checking out - it's a nice visual display of the processes used by genome sequencing provider Complete Genomics to smash apart and resequence a human genome.
I can't help but wonder if Complete built the blue-lit, monitor-lined hallway (screen shot below) purely for this video; it makes for great cinematics.
It must be personal genomics week here in the UK - the BBC also ran a generally favourable story on 23andMe a few days ago.
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The world of genomics is changing. It was initially about sequencing the genome a single representative individual from a particular species.
...that is, if you still think that a genome sequence tells all secrets about someone's success in science etc. ;-)
What happens when I mention a paper describing two more Drosophila genomes?
Genome size can be measured in a variety of ways. Classically, the haploid content of a genome was measured in picograms and represented as the C-value.
that's the way the hallway really looks. its humiddity, temperature and light controlled.