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In Hawaiian myth, the octopus is the lone survivor of an earlier, alien universe. If that were so, the octopus might be expected to have a neatly organized genome, one lacking any signs of having been reassembled from another world's wreckage. But in fact the octopus has a genome that seems a more jumbled version of other, less bizarre organisms.

That's just one observation that has come out of a genome sequencing project conducted by scientific teams from the University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) as part of the Cephalopod Sequencing Consortium. This international collaboration was initiated by Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner, founding president and a distinguished professor of OIST.

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