explain what it means to people now? we can do this. now several years later we can do it faster and more efficiently, my understanding is, than ever before. to the average person, what does that mean? well, it s an instructional book. it s written in a funny language that we re beginning to understand and learn how to read. each instruction book is different. although 99.5% is the same. that half percent is interesting. if we knew how to read the book and all the details hiding in there, we would know a lot about what causes diseases and how to keep people healthy. in 2003 we finished the first genal. that effort took 1 years and cost about $400 million for the sequencing part, not to mention all the technology development and everything else that added up to about $3 billion.
patented by a private company. when you try to explain to human genome project, how do you explain what it means to people right now? we can do this. and now, several years later, we can do it faster and efficiently my understanding is than ever before. to the average person, what does that mean? the human genome is an instruction book. it s a book written in a funny language we are just really beginning to understand and learn how to read and each one of our instruction books are different. although, 99.5% of it is the same. that half percent is pretty interesting. if we knew how to read that book and all of the details that are hiding in there, we would know a lot about what causes diseases and how to keep people healthy. in 2003, we finished that first complete genome and that was an effort that took 13 years and cost about $400 million just for the sequencing part, not to mention all the technology,