The notion of relative compression is obvious especially in genome re-sequencing projects where the aim is to discover variations in individual genomes.

Because of its lower cost and higher speed, the process should facilitate mapping of whole individual genomes for large segments of the population.

The number of conserved gene pairs present in individual prokaryotic genomes varied from 208 for M. genitalium to 2314 for P. aeruginosa (Table 1).

As the costs of sequencing continued to plummet, in 2008, Illumina announced that it had sequenced an individual genome for $100,000 in reagent costs.

Selection is the stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding (recombination or crossover).

A cost-effective approach may be to barcode each individual chromosome and perform parallel resequencing of the entire individual genome.

Replication is monocistronic and includes individual, segmented genomes, meaning that each of the genes codes for only one protein, unlike other viruses, which exhibit more complex translation.

The Human Genome Project produced the first complete sequences of individual human genomes.

The sequencing of individual genomes further unveiled levels of genetic complexity that had not been appreciated before.

This complicates the assembly process and makes reconstructing individual genomes for a species a daunting task.