A Comprehensive Map of Human Genetic Diversity - Technology Review

"Researchers say they have now captured a record 95 percent of all human genetic diversity. The research is the first phase of a global collaboration called the 1,000 genomes project, an effort to sequence 2,500 human genomes from different populations using new technologies....The research, published today in the journal Nature, generated more than 4.5 terabases (4.5 million million base letters) of information. It is also publicly available for further analysis through an online database...."