A revolutionary project by the British government will get fully under way in 2015 to realize "personalized medicine" for cancers and rare diseases by analyzing as many as 100,000 genomes from patients and their relatives.

The project is aimed at promptly detecting mutations in genes that cause diseases and pinpointing their origins. It will enable the development of new treatments and drugs matching the individual nature of diseases.

A genome is a set of genetic information handed down from parents to offspring and is recorded in a double helix-structured deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).