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``The great accomplishment of biotech powerhouse Celera - the publication of an independent draft of the human genome - never really happened, claims a new report by members of the publicly-funded Human Genome Project.
``They say new analysis reveals the company relied so heavily on publicly- available data that Celera's accomplishment cannot be considered independent, or a victory for their `whole genome shotgun' (WGS) approach to genome sequencing.
```This has important implications for how we should sequence other large genomes,' says Robert Waterston of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, one of the report's authors. But Celera officials say the new study is seriously flawed.
``The controversy is only the latest volley in a longstanding feud between Celera and the government and academic consortium over the sequence of our DNA. In 2001, even as both sides published genome drafts, they bickered over the benefits of their two approaches.''
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