Most strikingly, genome analysis showed that anatomically modern humans mixed with the Neanderthals.
They carried out the first genome-wide analysis of the genetic variation between different regions of the same tumour using samples of kidney cancer.
Illumina machines can be tweaked to give data quickly, says Chad Nusbaum, the co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass.
Future research will look at how the microbiome is "established in infants and maintained throughout life, " said Bruce Birren, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.
Earlier this month, scientists unveiled an analysis of the mouse genome in Nature.
One finding of this technique, which is known as genome-wide complex-trait analysis, is that many of the same genetic factors seem to explain why people differ in intelligence in childhood and old age.
Bats may be the source of a new Sars-like virus which killed a man in Saudi Arabia, according to an analysis of the coronavirus' genome.
Applications tested included the heavyweights of the government scientific community from projects such as MG-RAST (a metagenomics analysis server), the Joint Genome Institute, the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO).
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Known as "autosomal" analysis, this test involves scanning a million points across each person's genome to look for matches in the patterns passed down to them incrementally from previous generations.
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