The Search for Exceptional Genomes

[xenophon]

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/532421/the-search-for-exceptional-genomes/

[chockablock]

Inspiring. Finding 'human knockouts' is a fantastic example of what becomes possible as sequencing gets cheap.

Steven Hyman (former director of NIMH), recently argued that this approach is also key to developing treatments for depression:

http://www.nature.com/news/mental-health-depression-needs-la...

[At Nature, but not paywalled, thankfully]

[bthomas]

The article refers to Google sequencing healthy genomes, and I think I recently read something about Google running a longitudinal health study on employees (a la the Framingham Heart Study) - anyone here familiar with what they are doing?