Genome blitz: The Wellcome Trust plans to sequence 10,000 human genomes in the next three years. The UK-based medical charity announced the UK10K project on 24 June, to be funded by a￡10.5-million (US$15.8-million) award to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK. Four thousand participants, who are already taking part in two long-term clinical studies, will have their full genomes sequenced. The other 6,000 people, who have diseases thought to have a genetic component, will have only those genes that code for proteins (the exome) sequenced.
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