Watson's Genome, Venter's Genome, What's the Difference?

11 Sep, 2007 11:25 am "Come quickly, Watson," said Sherlock Holmes, "I've been asked to review a mysterious sequence, whose importance I'm only now beginning to comprehend."

Distant Cousins, But Close: The Surprising Complexity of The Sea Anemone Genome

24 Jul, 2007 12:32 pm The question of what the common ancestor of multicellular animals looked like has puzzled biologists for a long time. With the genome of the starlet sea...

Genome Transplantation - Coming to a Bacteria Near You

6 Jul, 2007 01:36 pm Well, I was interviewed yesterday by the AP (see the AP article here*) relating to an article in Science on Genome Transplantation by John Glass,...

Pilot of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Released Today

13 Jun, 2007 07:00 pm After scientists revealed the map of the entire human genome in 2001, the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project was launched in September 2003...

Scientists Decipher Rhesus Macaque Genome

5 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm In the 13 April 2007 issue, Science unveiled the genome sequence of one of biology's most important model organisms: the rhesus macaque monkey (Macaca...

You and the $1000 Genome ? Part II: The International HapMap Project

4 Jun, 2007 12:25 pm In Part I of the ?You and the $1000 Genome? series we examined the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, a $10 million purse for the group that can sequence 100...