title: A new strategy for genome sequencing.
abstract: Existing approaches to sequencing the human genome are based on the assumption that each region to be sequenced must first be mapped. But there is a simpler strategy in which any number of laboratories can cooperate.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Venter
authors.forename: H O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hood
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D015723:Gene Library; D005813:Genes, Synthetic; D016045:Human Genome Project / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*