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Eric D. Green, Edward M. Rubin and Maynard V. Olson speculate on the next forty years of the applications, from policing to data storage.

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  1. director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute at the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Eric D. Green

  2. chief scientific officer at Metabiota, San Francisco, California, USA

    Edward M. Rubin

  3. professor emeritus of medicine and genome sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Maynard V. Olson

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Green, E., Rubin, E. & Olson, M. The future of DNA sequencing. Nature 550, 179–181 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/550179a

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