G10K in the News: Sequencing’s new race: $1000 or bust.

In 2004, the Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technology funding opportunity from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invited companies to submit grant applications describing novel ways to reduce the cost of sequencing a human genome to $1000. Since then, the funding opportunity has been renewed as the $1000 Genome Initiative, emphasizing the goal that will revolutionize human genomic research.