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Message #13098
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:05:21 -0600
Subject: Celera: Genome Map Complete
Now if we can just sequence the genome map of the two-motor walker...
(small joke).
>by Kristen Philipkoski, Wired News
>8:35 a.m. Apr. 6, 2000 PDT
>
>Celera Genomics has finished sequencing the entire human genome.
>The private company made the surprise announcement Thursday morning at a
>House hearing that had been scheduled to discuss the future of the Human
>Genome Project.
>"We've finished the sequencing phase," Celera president Craig Venter said at
>the hearing.
>With those words, Celera officially beat the public Human Genome Project in
>a long, closely watched race that ended several months ahead of Celera's own
>schedule as well as the public project's.
jab
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