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...contrast, when scientists from Craig Venter's Celera Genomics and the Human Genome Project announce that they're finished sequencing the genome--which they are scheduled to do this week--the milestone will be a lot murkier. That's because they're not really finished. What the scientists at Celera have done is sequence about 97% of the genome, and the remaining 150 million or so letters won't be deciphered anytime soon. The HGP is even further behind; unlike Celera, it hasn't put its strings of letters into proper order yet. This loose end should be cleared...
...letter genetic differences. (These differences are formally known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.) Fourteen drug companies and the philanthropic Wellcome Trust (not affiliated with Glaxo Wellcome) organized an SNPs consortium last year to begin building a publicly available SNP database. Both the Human Genome Project and Celera are currently sequencing the genomes of many different people, of both sexes and all sorts of ethnic backgrounds, to get a better sense of where the SNPs...
...project's unofficial head. "Let's try it," said Collins--and at those words Patrinos knew that a longstanding scientific feud finally had a chance of being resolved. For months, Collins had been under pressure to hammer out his differences with J. Craig Venter, the prickly CEO of Celera Genomics, which was running its own independent genome-sequencing project--differences over who should get the credit for this scientific milestone; over whose genome sequence was more complete, more accurate, more useful; over the free exchange of what may be mankind's most important data versus the exploitation of what...
...race to sequence the human genome is almost over. Within a few weeks at most, the private company Celera Genomics will be announcing its successful completion of this monumental project, and the publicly funded Human Genome Project won't be far behind...
DoubleTwist's achievement reminds us that sequencing the human genome isn't the same as understanding it. What Celera and the federal project have been doing is figuring out the order of the DNA's chemical constituents--some 3 billion molecular "letters" that spell out the instructions for constructing a functioning human being...