How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life

July 22, 2008 | Source: Wired

George Church’s Personal Genome Project aims to make those correlations between particular genetic sequences and particular physical characteristics, including disease risk and personality, on an unprecedented scale.

Begun last year with 10 volunteers, it will soon expand to 100,000 participants and generate a massive database of genomes, phenomes, and even some omes in between.