[latj]

This person also forgot to mention that the original human genome project was not even the sequence of a single individual- it was several people.

The other thing this article doesnt mention is the idea of coverage. Its not like a jigsaw puzzle with one copy of each tile-- every time a whole genome is sequenced it is done so 30 times over to ensure that the pieces are correct.

Finally, Read length varies from technology to technology. This one claims average 10k base pairs.

http://www.pacb.com/smrt-science/smrt-sequencing/read-length...