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SUMMARY:Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequ
 encing - Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi\, Herchel Smith Pr
 ofessor of Medicinal Chemistry\, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Re
 search UK Cambridge Institute
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: One copy of the human genome comprises a code made u
 p of an arrangement of just over three billion units of the DNA bases (or 
 '"letters") G\, C\, A and T.  The Human Genome Project took many years and
  thousands of instruments to decode the first human genome at a cost of se
 veral hundred million dollars.  A human genome can now be decoded on a sin
 gle instrument in one day for a few thousand dollars.\n \nIn this lecture 
 Professor Shankar Balasubramanian will discuss the history of DNA sequenci
 ng and a method for rapidly decoding the genomes that originated in Cambri
 dge in the 1990s. Professor Balasubramanian will also consider the impact 
 of rapid genome sequencing on the life sciences\, medicine and society.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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