[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] Gary Van Domselaar • December 22, 2000
    ``A continuing revolution in deciphering the genetic code of plants, humans, insects and other creatures has been named the `breakthrough of the year' by the editors of Science. Compiling maps and sequences for the genetic pattern of a variety of organisms `might well be the breakthrough of the decade, perhaps even the century, for all its potential to alter our view of the world we live in,' the journal said. Science each year picks the scientific advances that its editors believe to the most significant of the past 12 months. The selections for 2000 appear in the journal on Friday. The journal noted that industrial-sized efforts to sequence the genetic pattern of fruit flies, plants, mice, worms, bacteria and people represent `biology's first foray into big science, and by almost any measure, it has been a great success.' In May, 1999, the journal said, researchers had completed human genome sequences that covered just a fraction of the whole genetic pattern. By August of this year, more than 4 billion base pairs of DNA had been sequenced and archived.''

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