The story so far: The Department of Biotechnology recently said that the exercise to sequence 10,000 Indian human genomes and create a database under the Centre-backed Genome India Project is about two-thirds complete. The process of whole-genome sequencing, made possible by the Human Genome Project, now facilitates the reading of a person’s individual genome to identify differences from the average …
The story so far: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research recently announced the conclusion of a six-month exercise of conducting a “whole-genome sequence” of a 1,008 Indians. The project is part of a programme called “IndiGen” and is What is whole genome sequencing? The order of base pairs and varying lengths of these sequences constitute the “genes”, which are …
