See how scientists put together the complete human genome (By MKrzywinski and ClaraMoskowitz)
The human genome is at last complete. Researchers have been working for decades toward this goal, and the Human Genome Project claimed victory in 2001, when it had read almost all of a person's DNA. But the stubborn remaining 8 percent of the genome took another two decades to decipher. These final sections were highly repetitive and highly variable among individuals, making them the hardest parts to sequence.
Editor’s Note : The graphic in this article was edited after posting to correct the number of bases in a totally gapless genomic sequence in 2022.
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