In July 2008, the UK's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announced that its researchers have sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in the previous six months, reaching a of 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code - one "Terabase". In a press release, the Sanger noted that this "will be read by researchers worldwide, helping them to understand the role of genes in health and disease. Scientists will be able to answer questions unthinkable even a few years ago and human medical genetics will be transformed."
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