Yahoo! News: Scientists Decode Rice Genome

J.W. Bizzaro • January 28, 2001

Yahoo! News: Scientists Decode Rice Genome
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``The project was a joint effort of Syngenta [of Switzerland] and Myriad Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah. The biotech companies are finishing ahead of an international rice-genome project, based in Japan, that is using different mapping techniques and research donated by Syngenta rival Monsanto Co. The two projects have followed similar tracks to rival public and private efforts to decode the human genome. The international rice project, to be finished in 2003, is supposed to be more accurate and complete.

``Syngenta's project may raise questions about corporate control of genetic material, particularly since it involves a crop that is vital to many poor nations. The two companies said they will make the rice data available to other researchers through research contracts. Syngenta said it also would work with research institutes in poor countries to help subsistence farmers. The company's policy is to provide data, such as the genetic code for rice, without royalties or fees when it is used for research benefiting poor farmers.''

Full story:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010126/sc/rice_genome.html

Syngenta press release:
http://www.syngenta.com/en/media/article.asp?article_id=126

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Submitted by Nobody ; posted on Wednesday, October 2, 2002

Can anyone help me with the answers for these two questions? 1. What does the 'rare codons' means if it is in a predicted ORF? 2. We were searching for nucleic acid subsequences in the Enterobacter T7 ligase gene. We found 380 subsequences and 5 Ribosome Binding Site (RBS) in this gene. All 5 RBS were in the ORF. So the question is does any of the RBS sites make sense compared to the ORF analysis? Thanks for any help. Tom

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