To retrace the history of the disease, an international team of scientists, led by Johannes Krause from Tübingen University and Stewart Cole from EPFL Lausanne, have reconstructed entire genome sequences of M. leprae bacteria from five medieval skeletons that were excavated in Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as seven biopsy samples from modern patients. (sciencedaily.com)
Or you could have your entire genome sequenced as Ozzy Osbourne did in 2010. (discovermagazine.com)
The thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is popular in biology research. (discovermagazine.com)