title: Next-generation sequencing: the race is on.
abstract: The $1000 genome may still be years away, but with the arrival of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies that are much faster and cheaper than the traditional Sanger method, large-scale sequencing of hundreds or even thousands of human genomes is fast becoming reality.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: von Bubnoff
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015894:Genome, Human; D015186:Hominidae / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*