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.
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Venter, J., Smith, H. & Hood, L. A new strategy for genome sequencing. Nature 381, 364–366 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/381364a0
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