From: Cameron Reilly (cameron@reilly.net)
Date: Mon Sep 13 1999 - 15:33:33 MDT
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> FRUITFLY GENES DECODED
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> A US genetic company, Celera, has decoded the genetic blueprint of the
> common fruit fly. Using its superfast but controversial "shotgun"
> method of
> gene sequencing, it has identified the entire genetic code, 1.8
> billion base
> pairs, of Drosophila melanogaster. This makes it the most complex organism
> to be sequenced. Celera is now working on the human genome, and says by
> March it should be 90% complete. See
> <http://www.pecorporation.com/press/prccorp0909a.html>
>
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