DNA sequencing - A plan to capture human diversity in 1000 genomes

Richard Durbin of the Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U. K., proposed the project of sequencing 1000 human genomes in a flash. Over the next few years, an international team plans to create a massive new genome catalog that will serve as a gold- standard reference set for analysis of human variation.The 1000 Genomes Project, as it's called, will delve much deeper than the sequencing of celebrity genomes. This project would help the scientists identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genomes to determine regions of the genome associated with a disease.