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"It has taken scientists just a day's work to unravel the entire genetic sequence of an antibiotic-resistant `superbug' that is one of the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections....The 2.8 million `base pairs'...were sequenced using what is the essentially one day's production capacity at the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in California."
Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_743000/743329.stm
The JGI site has lots of information, including annotation, the complete sequence, etc:
http://www.jgi.doe.gov
Submitted by Andreas Matern.
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