Our understanding of genome biology, genomics, and disease, and even human history,
has advanced tremendously with the completion of the Human Genome Project.
Technological advances coupled with significant cost reductions in genomic research have
yielded novel insights into disease etiology, diagnosis, and therapy for some of the world's
most intractable and devastating diseases—including malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis,
cancer, and diabetes. Yet, despite the burden of infectious diseases and, more recently …