Sentences with phrase «new draft genomes»
He likened the new draft genomes to the publication of the periodic table of the elements.
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COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK — Even though a draft sequence of the human genome is nearing completion, biologists still have widely varied estimates of how many genes it contains.
Since scientists first decoded a draft of the human genome more than 15 years ago, many questions have lingered, two of which have been addressed in a major new study co-led by a Princeton University computer scientist: Is it possible, despite the complexity of billions of bits of genetic information and their variations between people, to develop a mechanistic model for how healthy bodies function?
COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK — A dozen scientific teams have endorsed an international plan to complete a «working draft» of the human genome by the spring of 2000 and polish it into a «highly accurate» version by 2003.
The New York Times recently pointed out that 10 years after the first draft of the human genome was announced, the hoped - for ability to identify the genetic causes of our major killers such as cancer and heart disease has been mostly a bust.
After scientists announced the first draft of the human genome, people began to wonder how our new understanding of DNA would change life.
Using a new reference genome for P. malariae and a manually curated draft P. o. curtisi genome, we are now able to accurately place these species within the Plasmodium phylogeny.