The Precise - and Wild - Genomics Revolution: Genomics Provides Novel Treatments for Disease and Is Opening New Frontiers for Precision Medicine.

In the epic endeavor to sequence the human genome, it was as though the size of the equipment and amount of effort required were inversely proportional to the microscopic materials being parsed (Figure 1). "Imagine thousands of people, many laboratories … hundreds, hundreds, hundreds of these machines just to generate that first human genome sequence over a six to eight year period," says Dr. Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Figure 2).