If you haven't already browsed through Nature's most recent edition, do so immediately - it's packed with juicy genomic goodness.
I particularly enjoyed the brief commentaries from Francis Collins and Craig Venter, both providing retrospectives on the last decade of human genomics and predictions for the future of the field, and the neat infographic illustrating the staggering change in sequencing capacity over the last ten years - but the whole issue is well worth reading.
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