Hey, it's Ira Flato, and this is Science Friday.

A new look at the human genome, both with more detail and more diversity.

And the point in doing this is to understand how we differ in our sequences, our structures,

and trying to understand how proteins also differ amongst us.

Remember the human genome project?

Well, the initial draft was declared complete back in 2003.

But researchers then realized that one genome doesn't paint a complete picture of the human race. So fast forward

a decade or so, there came the thousand genomes project, an attempt to expand the picture by

sampling people from all over the world with different backgrounds and try to get a fuller look

at how we're the same or how we're different. Writing this

month in a journal Nature, two teams of researchers take another look at some of those thousand genomes,

resequencing, reassembling with more advanced techniques to lessen the number of typos and really

firm up how the pieces of the genome puzzle fit together.

Joining me now to talk about how it's going are my guest, Dr. Christine Beck,

Associate Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the University of Connecticut Health Center

and the Jackson Laboratory. She's in Farmington, Connecticut.

Dr. Glenis Logston, assistant professor of genetics

and core member of the Epigenetics Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in Philly.

And Dr. Adam Philippi, a senior investigator in the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research

at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH in Bethesda,

Maryland. Welcome all of you to Science Friday. Thanks. Thanks, Ira. Great to be here.

Nice to have you all. Dr. Logston, let me start with you. What's the thousand mile view of this paper?

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