How do you sequence over 240,000 whole human genomes?
The world’s largest human genome sequencing project has been for UK Biobank – a large-scale biomedical database. Sanger staff have sequenced 243,633 human genomes in 3.5 years.
Our UK Biobank Journey: 3 years and over 240,000 human genomes
In 2019, the Sanger Institute started on the most ambitious human genome sequencing project in the world. Three years later, the Institute has delivered nearly 250,000 whole human genome sequences and over 20 petabytes (PB) of data, for the UK Biobank project, to aid research into health and disease.
Contamination control and walking with dinosaurs
Meet Laura Grout, a Quality Assurance Manager playing a vital role in genomic surveillance and UK Biobank projects at the Sanger Institute.
Powering discovery in blood disorders and depression
The wealth of information available to researchers through UK Biobank is powering studies into human health and disease
Sanger’s super-sized sequencing scales new heights
We're celebrating: we've just read the same amount of DNA in one year as we achieved in the previous 25 years combined. This dizzying speed offers unprecedented possibilities to unlock new understanding in health and disease
