The readers of videnskab.dk have voted the Danish pan genome study to be the most significant Danish research result in 2017. The main project, published in Nature July 2017 (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23264), is a major Danish collaboration where researchers from BiRC played a very central part. The assembly and analysis of the 150 genomes of Danish descent made extensive use of the supercomputers GenomeDK at Aarhus University and Computerome at Copenhagen University/DTU. The Danish pan genome will be an important basis for future Danish ventures into personalised medicine. It also allowed a better resolution of variation in the important MHC system (a cluster of immune system genes) published alongside the main paper in Genome Research 
(http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2017/08/03/gr.218891.116) and at the Y chromosome in PLOS Genetics (http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006834)