The effort echoes the private-sector push to decode the human genome.

此计划与私人企业力求破解人类基因组如出一辙。

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The study, published in the journal Nature, came out of the mammoth effort during the 1990s to decode the entire three billion "letters" of the human genome.

在Nature杂志发表的研究来自九十年代通过巨大的努力获得的整个人类基因组30亿个编码信息。

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Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.

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It won't compete immediately with the monster machines from Illumina because it can decode only a tiny fraction of the human genome at a time.

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