From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 11:44:44 MDT
>Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:06:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>Subject: BIOTECH: Perlegen and your personal gene defects
>Looks like we have a biotech startup that thinks it has compiled
>the complete list of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in
>the human genome.
>Proofreading the human genome Firm compiles extensive list of
>genetic variations
>S.F. Chronical, 10/7/2002
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/07/BU186760.DTL&type=printable
>Others that probably have similar information/approaches would
>include Celera and perhaps Sequenom (according to the article).
>Keep your eyes peeled for the Wired article discussing David Duncan's
>encounter with his personal blueprint.
>I am my code. No, I am my data. No, my code allows my data to
>express itself. But without my data the code would be purposeless.
>Perhaps I am both my code *and* my data. Ah, but grasshopper,
>could it not be that on my good days I am my data and on my
>bad days I am but merely my code?
>My yard needs a brook so that I may ponder this question.
>Robert
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Shouldn't that be "glasshoppah"?
I'm a stickler for dialect, don't you know.
It was my understanding a complete SNP map would take 5 years. Then again,
that was 1999.
James.....
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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