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Published online 31 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050725-14
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Fast sequencing comes to light
Personal quest to read genomes yields results.
When Jonathan Rothberg's son was born six years ago, the baby was sent to the infant intensive care unit. Rothberg worried all night that something might be wrong with his child, and he found himself wishing he could just read the boy's genome to find out.
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