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Genetic Future reports: First ever association study using whole genome sequences.

New-technology DNA sequencing provider Complete Genomics will provide near-complete genome sequences of 100 individuals to the Institute for Systems Biology, driving the first ever association study for a complex trait using whole-genome sequencing. Here’s the press release, and GenomeWeb has some additional information

This study was done by Complete Genomics, and as Daniel mentions, does indicate some changes and advances to come. Read the entire post, he mentions some things learned at ASHG about how these studies will look in the future, and particularly, this sentence…

Now the real challenge - coming up with ways of handling the massive volumes of data generated by these technologies

goes to the heart of something I see as a very important question. Not only the right tools but funding them.

An embarrassment of riches.

that was fun writing that title. A recent correspondence in Nature Genetics outlined some changes in the HuGE Navigator. This database has been available in some form since 2001. The basic purpose of the database is to…

navigate and mine the growing scientific literature on human gene-disease associations and related data in human genome epidemiology. As an interconnected system of applications that users can enter by using genes, diseases, or risk factors as the starting point, HuGE Navigator provides a potential bridge between epidemiologic and genetic research domains.