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Re:200 TB of 1000 genomes data on Amazon S3 as a public dataset by apawloski on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:07PM (#3772600)
Similar to other questions, but can anyone explain what exactly this data is and what analysis is being done on it?
Re:200 TB of 1000 genomes data on Amazon S3 as a public dataset by gpurkins on Thursday March 29, 2012 @09:39PM (#3774105)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Genomes_Project

Here's the project explanation, but the data itself is 1000 complete (hopefully!) genome sequences. The hope is to find the variants, be it single nucleotide differences, copy number difference, etc. Where I work we use it to help figure out SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) to see if something we sequenced is a mutation or just a variant with no effect.