it can't be done. >> even venter agrees that dna is not truly anonomous. >> i would not advise anyone to do what i did. and that's to be so public about your own genome? >> yes. >> the first study at hli has nothing to do with disease at all, >> i can only think about one thing at a time... >> but is to find out if scientists can reconstruct a person's face and their voice... >> because to them in their mind, this myth, safety... >> ....from only their genetic code. >> this is like minority report stuff. this is you can get a little dna from a crime scene and say here's what he looks like and here's what he sounds like. >> yep. >> that's what you want to get to. >> yep. >> so part of that says that it >> ...he implications of that are great! can't be de-identified. >> right. >> dna cannot be de-identified. >> right >> he says that's why hli will not have an open database that any researcher can easily search through. >> that's why we put so much into database security so that we can protect the records to the extent one can in computer databases. >> but advocates of genetic privacy sa

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and it turned out that the idea craig venter was really pushing nessed all of this combinatorics.will cohere into one. given this fragment and given this fragment, 200 bases overlap, so we'll put them together and see if we can put the next one in. and if those two overlap and then you have a third one that comes in and it matches, you know you have it right. with a human genome, which is 3 billion a's, c's, g's and t's, you need to be a little smarter. so now you set all sorts of heuristics. so you say, "well, let's take every pair of reads that overlaps by at least, say, 100 letters," and they have the identical 100 letters. the problem is there's always sequencing error. for every one of those comparisons, you're computing all these details about it. so that is the problem that the computer has to solve as it's doing assembly of all of these pieces. when i first started in looking at genomes, the only genomes that were being sequenced were one-celled microbes, bacteria and archaea. proteins from one organism would have absolutely no match whatsoever in the next organism over, s

venter has the intention in his human longevity institute of doing a lot of whole genome sequencing. we believe to get the maximum information you want that. >> let me ask you quickly, senator murray has emphasized the importance of making sure everyone or representative group of everyone is included in this, what about children? i mean, the suggestion was made this morning that sequencing the genome of a child for a genetic defect leading up to a particular disease can be less complicated than for an older person who may have a more complex disease. will you include children in -- and the single gene therapy treatment as part of what you do? >> that is an active area of investigation by our working group. let mex explain that. we assembled a group of private and public experts on this whole question of this million strong cohort. they have met once last week. they'll be meeting again specifically to talk about what should be the constitution of this cohort. should children be included? what should we do about individuals that may not otherwise be asked to participate. we want to be