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Science 16 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5507, pp. 1265 - 1266
DOI: 10.1126/science.1057972
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Books

GENOMICS:
Hunting the Metaphor

A review by Sydney Brenner

Cracking the Genome Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA
Kevin Davies
Free Press, New York, 2001. 320 pp. $25. ISBN 0-7432-0479-4.

released in the UK as

The Sequence Inside the Race for the Human Genome
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 2001. 320 pp. £20. ISBN 0-297-64698-2.

This lively, accessible, and even-handed account describes the efforts to sequence the human genome from the early plans of the mid-1980s to the White House announcement of June 2000. Davies weaves together stories of the science, technologies, politics, and personalities that contributed to the Human Genome Project, Venter's shotgun approach, and the intense competition that developed between them.
The author is at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Post Office Box 85800, San Diego, CA 92186-5800, USA.

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