castanyes blaves
Random ramblings about some random stuff, and things; but more stuff than things -- all in a mesmerizing and kaleidoscopic soapbox-like flow of words.1/11/2009
Worm genome for £25,000
Professor Mark Blaxter of Edinburgh University hopes to redress this deficit by sequencing more invertebrate genomes, starting with the earthworm. Blaxter says his lab is taking a leap of faith by applying new sequencing technologies to the challenge of a whole genome, and is spending a mere £25,000 on the project, compared with previous genome projects costing millions. The whole process is surprisingly fast – the donor worm was squashed in October and he estimates the lab will have a completed genome by March 2009.
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