Figure 1.

Personal genomes sequenced so far. Each male (yellow) or female (pink) sequenced is shown in the approximate geographical position of their ethnic origin. The name or codename and ethnicity of the individual sequenced, the date of publication, the sequencing platform used, the coverage and the reference are given for each genome. Platforms: 3730xl (Applied Biosystems by Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA); Complete Genomics Analysis Platform (CGA) Complete Genomics, Mountain View, CA, USA); FLX (Roche, Basel, Switzerland); Genome Analyzer (GA) (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA); Heliscope (He6licos BioScience, Cambridge, MA, USA); SOLiD (Applied Biosystems by Life Technologies).