Diagnostic uses might demand a reduction in error rates below the current HGP standard of 0.01 percent, because that still permits 600,000 errors per human genome.

• 目前人类基因组计画的误差标准为0.；01%25，也就是人类基因组的序列中可能有60万个错误，相较之下，用于医疗诊断的定序误差必须更低。