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Brown SM (2015) Next‐Generation DNA Sequencing Informatics, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Cotton RGH (2012) The human variome project and the developing world. In: Kumar D (ed.) Genomics and Health in the Developing World, part 1, chap. 2,. Oxford University Press.
McElheny VK (2012) Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project. Basic Books.
Palladino MA (2006) Understanding the Human Genome Project, 2nd edn. Pearson.