The first Korean Genome Announced (2008. Dec. 4th)

Gacheon Medical School's Lee Gilyeo Cancer Diabetes Research Institute and KOBIC of KRIBB announced a Korean human genome sequence. 

http://koreagenome.org/

The first full genome sequence is available from ftp://ftp.kobic.re.kr/pub/PersonalGenomes/Korean/

This is the fifth individual genome that is fully available on the net. Dr. Kim Seong-jin's genome was sequenced who is the head of the LCDI (Lee Gilyeo Cancer Diabetes Inst.).

The genome was analyzed by KOBIC using around 150 CPUs.

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The first Korean Genome was published in Genome Research in May 2009.

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2009/06/24/gr.092197.109.full.pdf+html

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