

In the decades since the project’s completion, we’ve seen projects aimed at human health and understanding the population and biomes in which we live. Now, with the power and throughput of the NovaSeq 6000 Sequencing System accomplish the same feat in a day at a fraction of that cost. Thousands of scientists worked for years to sequence that first genome – a billion-dollar investment. The genomics revolution has given us non-invasive prenatal testing, safely detecting fetal anomalies in utero, and helped thousands of patients with rare genetic diseases get diagnosed in weeks rather than years. Take a moment to think about things that we note as routine today. What was once science fiction is now routine.
