HOUSTON & FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) will use high-throughput sequencing systems from Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, for a significant part of their contribution to the first pilot phases of the 1000 Genomes Project, sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Wellcome Trust and the Beijing Genome Institute. This project is a worldwide research effort that will involve the sequencing of 1,000 genomes from people from around the world to create the most detailed and medically useful picture to date of human genetic variation. The HGSC will acquire six SOLiD™ Systems in order to complete the work.
