The National DNA Day commemorates the 1953 Nature publication of the Structure of DNA by James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and colleagues. It has been….
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- 65 years since the publication of the Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids
- paper by Watson, Crick, and colleagues like Wilkins and Franklin,
- 41 years since the release of the Sanger sequencing methodology,
- 31 years since the launch of the first automated DNA sequencer by Applied Biosystems which eventually enabled the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001,
- 12 years since the launch of the Solexa Genome Analyzer, the first second-generation sequencing platform, which supported the sequencing of 1 GB of data in a single run,
- 4 years since the $1,000 Genome has become a reality via Illumina’s introduction of the HiSeq X Ten platform and a 10,000-fold reduction in price relative to the cost of the human genome in 2004,
- 3 years since the completion of the 1,000 Genomes Project and the start of the 100K Genomes Project and many other projects taking off.
The above lists only a handful of many significant milestones since 1953. Along with these developments came technological advancements required to analyze, manage, store, and extract insights from all of these data. These achievements over the last few decades are tremendous and led to significant progress in areas such as research, drug discovery, disease diagnosis and treatment, and precision medicine applications.
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A hymn to DNA by my daughter (while a junior in high school in biology class)
