Aim 1: A sensitive and specific method for isolation of human DNA sequences from wastewater.

Goal: derive accurate, rare allele frequency estimates.

Simulation of allele frequencies

Show off pretty figures.

DNA purification

Get some gallons of wastewater. Isopropanol extraction, followed by ethanol precipitation, maybe followed by beads?

Library preparation and sequencing

#figure

Comparison to ExAC

So much better, so much cheaper, beat that.

Aim 2: Estimating the complete human sequence diversity of the homeobox transcription factor HOXC6.

Prime & go home.

Aim 3: Downstream functional characterization of constrained HOXC6 variants with a high throughput sequencing assay.

Clone library of plasmids using the essential gene protocol or technique from AB2.2 cells. Sequence that shit.

Conclusions

There is also the possibility of detecting disease in samples \cite{Putaporntip_2011}.